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Definition of Depolymerize
1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Depolymerize
Literary usage of Depolymerize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Asphalts and Allied Substances: Their Occurrence, Modes of Production, Uses by Herbert Abraham (1920)
"... depolymerize and become completely soluble in benzol and carbon disulphide.
... is more difficult to depolymerize than ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"On exposure to water, these polymers depolymerize more or less slowly to release
the original carboxylic acid and the hydrous metal oxide gel. ..."
3. Inside the Cell by Maya Pines (1990)
"Microtubules assemble spontaneously from "pools" of tubulin when needed and,
under appropriate conditions, dissolve, or depolymerize, back into their ..."
4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1902)
"... depolymerize the cellulose, without conferring any new chemical functions on it.
The same is true of diluted acids acting under the conditions necessary ..."
5. Rubber by Philip Schidrowitz (1911)
"2 He observed that if rubber is boiled with these reagents, it tends to "
depolymerize." It occurred to him that the reaction might be reversible, ..."
6. Gasoline and Other Motor Fuels by Carleton Ellis, Joseph V. Meigs (1921)
"Eldred and Mersereau ' depolymerize heavy oils or residua, to form unsaturated
gaseous hydrocarbons of the aliphatic series; eg, ..."
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