What the heck is a polyacrylamide (PAM)?
A.Polyacrylamide or PAM is a large family of chemicals based on chains of acrylamide units. Depending on their exact make-up, these polymers can be anionic (negatively charged), cationic (positively charged) or neutral. There are hundreds of different types of PAMs used for a wide variety of purposes in many industries including agriculture, water treatment, and paper-making.
