nitrile
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of nitrile
Example Sentences
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While preparing the sampling surfaces, Clough followed standard practice and wore nitrile gloves.
From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026
After Hartalega’s 3Q earnings beat, Wong raises the glove maker’s earnings forecasts for FY2026 by 99% to factor in stronger plant utilization, lower tax rates and reduced nitrile latex costs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026
A musician called Safana Bakleh gave her group of volunteers face masks and blue nitrile gloves along with instructions about photographing and collecting documents.
From BBC • Dec. 16, 2024
It made a few investments in the manufacturing of other crucial P.P.E., such as isolation gowns and nitrile gloves, which are also produced largely overseas and subject to similar shortfalls.
From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2020
It usually happens, however, that two stereo-isomers result from the "step-up" by way of the nitrile reaction; thus, arabinose yields a mixture of glucose and mannose, glucose yields glucoheptose and mannoheptose, etc.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred
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