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Definition of Polymers
1. polymer [n] - See also: polymer
Medical Definition of Polymers
1. Compounds formed by the joining of smaller, usually repeating, units linked by covalent bonds. These compounds often form large macromolecules (e.g., polypeptides, proteins, plastics). (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polymers
Literary usage of Polymers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Some polymers were over ten times as.active as the equivalent amount of histidine;
these and other polymers could be largely or partially inactivated by ..."
2. Sensor Systems for Biological Agent Attacks: Protecting Buildings and by Bmed, National Research Council (U.S.), ebrary, Inc (2005)
"Imprinted polymers Polymerization of certain monomers in the presence of target
... While imprinted polymers developed to date are known to suffer from ..."
3. A New Basis for Chemistry: A Chemical Philosophy by Thomas Sterry Hunt (1891)
"All known liquid and solid species, whether elementary or not, are polymers of
some simpler species, which, in very many cases, is capable of assuming the ..."
4. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen, Henry Leffmann (1896)
"Dilute nitric acid decomposes it with evolution of carbon dioxide and formation
of silver and ammonium nitrates (page 484). polymers of Cyanic Acid. ..."
5. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1896)
"Dilute nitric acid decomposes it with evolution of carbon dioxide and formation
of silver and ammonium nitrates (page 484). polymers of Cyanic Acid. ..."
6. The Elementary Principles of Chemistry by Abram Van Eps Young (1900)
"Of these there are two varieties—the polymers and the metamers. The polymers are
substances which have the same percentage composition, but differ in ..."
7. The Elementary Principles of Chemistry by Abram Van Eps Young (1900)
"0f these there are two varieties—the polymers and the metamers. The polymers are
substances which have the same percentage composition, but differ in ..."
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