Thesaurus / synthetic
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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.
UNMADE IN AMERICATATE RYAN-MOSLEYAUGUST 14, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWThe 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.
SCIENTISTS GENE-HACK COTTON PLANTS TO MAKE THEM EVERY COLOR OF THE RAINBOWJASON DORRIERAUGUST 11, 2020SINGULARITY HUB 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.
HOW FAKE VIRUSES CAN HELP US MAKE THE BEST POSSIBLE VACCINESSHELLY FANJULY 7, 2020SINGULARITY HUB Because the smell was completely synthetic, though, researchers could mess with it.
HOW TO MAKE A MOUSE SMELL A SMELL THAT DOESN’T ACTUALLY EXISTLAURA SANDERSJUNE 18, 2020SCIENCE NEWSThe fully synthetic nature of the Arkansas team’s technology could thus have a leg up on biologically-based approaches.
ARTIFICIAL KIDNEYS ARE A STEP CLOSER WITH THIS NEW TECHVANESSA BATES RAMIREZJUNE 3, 2020SINGULARITY HUB As a synthetic biologist, she engineers bacteria to make materials.
THIS ‘LIVING’ CONCRETE SLURPS UP A GREENHOUSE GASCAROLYN WILKEMAY 6, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSThe opioid crisis really began with prescription pills, then moved into heroin, and now synthetic fentanyl, which presents a particularly high risk of overdose.
THE OPIOID TRAGEDY, PART 2: “IT’S NOT A DEATH SENTENCE” (EP. 403)STEPHEN J. DUBNERJANUARY 23, 2020FREAKONOMICSSo an increase in synthetic fabrics led to a shrinking demand for wool — which meant that all those sheep that had been kept around for shearing no longer needed to be kept around.
THE FUTURE OF MEAT (EP. 367 REBROADCAST)STEPHEN J. DUBNERAUGUST 29, 2019FREAKONOMICSNearly all the translating words given in this section so far are synthetic.
ASSIMILATIVE MEMORYMARCUS DWIGHT LARROWE (AKA PROF. A. LOISETTE)Drapes of velvety synthetic, dyed the deep green that Martian colonists like, covered the walls.
FEE OF THE FRONTIERHORACE BROWN FYFEWORDS RELATED TO SYNTHETIC
- aftermath
- amount
- artifact
- blend
- brand
- brew
- by-product
- commodity
- compound
- concoction
- confection
- consequence
- contrivance
- creation
- crop
- decoction
- device
- effect
- emolument
- fabrication
- fruit
- gain
- handiwork
- invention
- issue
- legacy
- line
- manufacture
- merchandise
- offshoot
- outcome
- outgrowth
- output
- preparation
- produce
- production
- profit
- realization
- result
- returns
- spinoff
- stock
- synthetic
- upshot
- work
- yield
- all there
- analytical
- balanced
- calm
- cerebral
- circumspect
- cognitive
- collected
- cool
- deductive
- deliberate
- discerning
- discriminating
- enlightened
- far-sighted
- impartial
- intellectual
- intelligent
- judicious
- knowing
- levelheaded
- logical
- lucid
- normal
- objective
- perspicacious
- philosophic
- prudent
- ratiocinative
- reasonable
- reasoning
- reflective
- sagacious
- sane
- sensible
- sober
- sound
- stable
- synthetic
- thinking
- thoughtful
- together
- well-advised
- wise
- aberrant
- abnormal
- affected
- anomalous
- assumed
- bizarre
- concocted
- contrary
- contrived
- ersatz
- extraordinary
- fabricated
- factitious
- false
- feigned
- forced
- freakish
- freaky
- imitation
- incredible
- insincere
- irregular
- labored
- made-up
- make believe
- odd
- outlandish
- outrageous
- perverse
- perverted
- phony
- preposterous
- pseudo
- put on
- queer
- staged
- stiff
- stilted
- strained
- strange
- studied
- supernatural
- synthetic
- theatrical
- unaccountable
- uncanny
- unconforming
- unorthodox
- unusual
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