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Small molecules hold hands in a line until they become plastic, or you.
means The chemical process by which small molecules (monomers) bond together repeatedly to form long chains or networks called polymers.
from Built from Greek 'poly' (many) and 'meros' (part, portion) — the same 'meros' that gives us words about division and sharing. 'Polymer' itself was coined in the early 1800s by chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius, originally to describe compounds with the same ratio of elements but different molecular weights — a meaning chemistry later outgrew as the modern sense of giant repeating chains took hold. The '-ization' is just the standard suffix for 'the process of becoming.'
- your dna
- technically a polymerization product of nucleotides
- superglue trick
- cures using moisture in your skin, not air
- chain reaction
- one initiator molecule can trigger thousands of bonds
- rubber origin
- vulcanization cross links polymer chains with sulfur