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Polymers appear in all things in everyday life of people, there are countless shapes and different applications.
Polymers appear in all things in everyday life of people, there are countless shapes and different applications.
What are the common points of silk, adn, wood, bubbles, plastic Silly Putty? They are all Polymers.
Polymers appear a lot in our lives.
Polymers appear much in our lives, it's hard to imagine a world without them, but what are they actually?
Polymers are large molecules, made up of small units called monomers, which are joined together like a train's railroad car.
"Poly" means "multiple", "mono" means "one" and "mers" or "meno" means parts.
Update 15 December 2018
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