noun
- plural of amide: chemical compounds derived from ammonia by replacement of hydrogen atoms with acyl groups
Usage: chemistry
Examples
- Proteins are made up of amino acids linked by amides.
- The laboratory synthesized several new amides for testing.
- Amides are important functional groups in organic chemistry.
- These amides showed promising results in the pharmaceutical study.
- The reaction produced a mixture of different amides.
- Students learned to identify amides in molecular structures.