Polymer
Posted on 01/01/2019 Category:
The chemical term used to describe all organic materials which are formed from chains of repeated chemical units. Consisting of a long molecular chain formed by the chemical combination of many similarly structured, small molecular units.
(Synthetic) The product of a polymerisation reaction. The product of polymerisation of one monomer is called a homopolymer, monopolymer or simply a polymer. When two monomers are polymerised simultaneously the product is called a copolymer. The term Terpolymer is sometimes used for polymerisation products of three monomers.
