synthetics

Another client is an Ohio-based manufacturer of cotton swabs that is replacing the cotton with a synthetic equivalent in order to make nasal testing swabs uncontaminated by the plant fiber’s DNA.

The team hopes their new cotton plants might eventually be grown widely and made into clothes, helping to displace the toxic dyes and synthetic materials used by the fashion industry.

All he needed was a long, two-dimensional chain—natural or synthetic—and the chain should fold itself automatically, similar to how it folds into the double helix inside our bodies.

Because the smell was completely synthetic, though, researchers could mess with it.

The fully synthetic nature of the Arkansas team’s technology could thus have a leg up on biologically-based approaches.

One key ingredient of the stuff: Propylene glycol, a synthetic liquid that absorbs water.

The Illinois legislation does not include bioplastics like PHA, defining the banned microplastics to be of the synthetic type.

But the arguments over drug testing may cease to matter if the synthetic drug epidemic continues.

With more than 300 synthetic cannabinoids in use today, drug-testing companies are struggling to keep up with the new varieties.

A dangerous synthetic drug trend is fueling an epidemic among American youth.

Nearly all the translating words given in this section so far are synthetic.

Drapes of velvety synthetic, dyed the deep green that Martian colonists like, covered the walls.

If you want to make a synthetic sapphire, you start with a seed sapphire, and the artificial process builds up on that.

Approximately two-thirds of such chemical employees are found in the synthetic fiber field.

Virginia now has approximately 30% of the total employees in the United States engaged in synthetic fibers.