How to pronounce“polymerize”in English
If one of the hydrogens is replaced with a phenyl group, well that chemical was first derived from trees in the Styrax family, so it's called styrene.
Polymerize it, polystyrene. Make a foam out of it, Styrofoam.
Now if you change all four of the hydrogens on the base ethylene with fluorine it becomes tetrafluoroethylene.
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Definitions of “polymerize”
(organic chemistry) To convert a monomer to a polymer by polymerization.
To undergo polymerization.
“Non-polymerized lamins are dimers and they can polymerize to structures such as head to tail or by unparallel dimers which aggregate in tetramers and polymerize to thick fibers.”
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