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azodicarbonamide en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Northern-California) audio

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) An organic chemical, a yellow to orange red, odorless, crystalline powder, used in food industry as a food additive, flour bleaching agent and improving agent, and in foaming plastics.
    • To protest the sandwich chain’s use of azodicarbonamide in its bread, Ms. Hari posted a video of herself chewing another item in which the chemical is found: a yoga mat. 2015 March 13, Courtney Rubin, “Taking On the Food Industry, One Blog Post at a Time”, in The New York Times:

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Synonyms

E927 · azobisformamide