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When conducting an in-office fluoride treatment, the dentist applies either fluoride gels or creams or silver diamine fluoride to your teeth.
—Mark Gurarie, Health, 13 Sep. 2024
Silver diamine fluoride: Often used to treat tooth sensitivity, silver diamine fluoride is a varnish that dentists paint onto teeth.
—Mark Gurarie, Health, 13 Sep. 2024
Key Takeaways New research shows silver diamine fluoride (SDF) is as effective as dental sealants at stopping tooth decay.
—Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 23 Apr. 2024
What to Look for in the Best Chlorine Shampoos
When searching for the best chlorine shampoos, look for ingredients like apple cider vinegar, ethylene diamine tetra acetic-acid (EDTA), sodium thiosulfate, charcoal, and crystallized vitamin C to effectively remove chlorine.
—Joseph Cheatham, Men's Health, 17 July 2023
The researchers took MOFs and modified them with nitrogenous compounds known as diamines.
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 Mar. 2015
In the garage stood a cooler with a white, cakelike substance, later identified as explosive hexamethylene triperoxide diamine, which has been used in terrorist attacks, such as the 2005 London bombing, and a framed photo of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.
—Hannah Gais, The New Republic, 18 May 2021
Silver diamine gives the dentist and the families an option to halt the disease and defer final treatment until the child matures and is capable of receiving treatment in a normal setting without extraordinary measures.
—Anna Nguyen, Philly.com, 17 Oct. 2017
Inside a cooler located in the garage directly underneath the apartment, investigators found the chemical hexamethane triperoxide diamine, or HMTD, which can be used to make bombs.
—David Goodhue, miamiherald, 13 June 2017
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First Known Use
1866, in the meaning defined above
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“Diamine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diamine. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
Medical Definition
diamine
noun
di·amine
ˈdī-ə-ˌmēn
dī-ˈam-ən
: a compound containing two amino groups
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