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Definition of Polymeric

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or consisting of a polymer. "A polymeric compound"

Definition of Polymeric

1. a. Having the same percentage composition (that is, having the same elements united in the same proportion by weight), but different molecular weights; -- often used with with; thus, cyanic acid (CNOH), fulminic acid (C₂N₂O₂H₂), and cyanuric acid (C₃N₃O₃H₃), are polymeric with each other.

Definition of Polymeric

1. Adjective. (chemistry) of, relating to, or consisting of a polymer. Examples of such compounds include polyurethane foams, PVC foams, and styrofoam. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Polymeric

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Polymeric

1. Having the same percentage composition (that is, having the same elements united in the same proportion by weight), but different molecular weights; often used with with; thus, cyanic acid (CNOH), fulminic acid (C2N2O2H2), and cyanuric acid (C3N3O3H3), are polymeric with each other. The figures expressing the number of atoms of each element in a number of polymeric substances are respectively multiples and factors of each other, or have some simple common divisor. The relation may be merely a numerical one, as in the example given above, or a chemical one, as in the case of aldehyde, paraldehyde, and metaldehyde. Origin: Poly- + Gr. Part. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Polymeric

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1862)
"(J535) Combustion of polymeric and Homologous Compounds. —Favre and Silbermann have likewise examined the amount of heat developed during the combustion of ..."

2. Handbook of Organic Chemistry: For the Use of Students by William Gregory, J. Milton Sanders (1857)
"Adopting this view, we have the two parallel and polymeric series, in each of which the members are homologous : C, n, =C, H,, II, ..."

3. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon by Victor von Richter, Richard Anschütz, Georg Schroeter (1900)
"... their polymeric modifications and their sulphones ; (B) the ... All of them can be regarded as the alkyl derivatives of polymeric ..."

4. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon by Victor von Richter, Richard Anschütz, Georg Schroeter (1899)
"... their polymeric modifications and their sulphones; ... All of them can be regarded as the alkyl derivatives of polymeric ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"On two polymeric series of Phosphorus- Nitrogen compounds and on the Stereochemistry of Phosphorus and Nitrogen. By Dr. HN Stokes, United States Geological ..."

6. Elements of Chemical and Physical Geology by Gustav Bischof (1855)
"M. Scheerer* is of opinion that there is a peculiar kind of isomorphism which he terms polymeric, and which consists in the substitution of water for ..."

7. Principles of Organic and Physiological Chemistry by Carl Löwig (1853)
"... but the polymeric are also often founded upon a different union of the atoms. The polymeric result from the different atomic weights when the ..."

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