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Browse the list of 914 polymer acronyms and abbreviations with their meanings and definitions. Silk is a polymer of the amino acids glycine and alanine wool is having disulphide sulphursulphur bonds to link the polymer chains together. Gross department of applied linguistics technische universitit dresden gdr, elsevier, amsterdam, 1984, 716 pp. A polymer is a chemical compound with large molecules made of many smaller molecules of. Compendium of polymer terminology and nomenclature iupac. Encyclopedic dictionary of polymers with 710 figures and 38 t.
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Although many polymers were made in the following years, the technology to mass produce them was not developed until world war ii, when there was a need to develop synthetic rubber for tires and other wartime applications and nylon for parachutes. Polymer definition and meaning collins english dictionary. The sulphur is present due to the amino acid cysteine. Food beverage reporter, novdec 2009 i would thoroughly recommend this book to food scientists and technologists. Most conventional oscillatory mechanical testing is carried out polymer technology dictionary by t. Most plastics are manmade polymers, while proteins are natural polymers made up of amino acids. Very high molecularweight compound made up of a large number of simpler molecules called monomers of the same kind. These polymers have a similar structure to the polyamides, which have the urethane carbamate group as part of the polymer backbone.
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