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| to remove impurities from a gas by chemical means, as sulfur dioxide from smokestack gas or carbon dioxide from exhaled air in life-support packs |
| a purplish-red, water-soluble powder, C20H11N2O10Na3, an azo dye used chiefly to color pharmaceuticals, food, and garments |
| -mer | |
| —suffix forming nouns | |
| chem denoting a substance of a particular class: monomer; polymer | |
| [from Greek meros part] | |
-mer suff.
Variant of -mere.
| -mere or -mer
A suffix meaning "part" or "segment," as in blastomere, one of the cells that form a blastula. |