Polymerization is used here in loose terms lest I may be reprimanded. For professional chemists, polymerization is actually a process in which relatively small molecules, called monomers, combine chemically to produce a very large chainlike or network molecule, called a polymer. Polymer can be naturally occurring or synthetic and accounts for ...

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