imidazole
noun
im·id·az·ole
ˌi-mə-ˈda-ˌzōl 
: a white crystalline heterocyclic base C3H4N2 that is an antimetabolite related to histidine
broadly
: any of various derivatives of this
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And the company has teamed up with industrial giant 3M to produce swaths of their imidazole membranes in a reel-to-reel process.
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Robert Service, Science | AAAS, 1 Sep. 2017
Robert Service, Science | AAAS, 1 Sep. 2017
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imidazole
noun
im·id·az·ole
ˌim-ə-ˈdaz-ˌōl
1
: a white crystalline heterocyclic base C3H4N2 that is an antimetabolite related to histidine
2
: any of a large class of derivatives of imidazole including histidine and histamine
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