What is Polymer?
The word Polymer refers to materials which are having
‘poly’ or many repeated ‘mer’s or units. In fact a single
unit of Polymer is known as Monomer, two monomers
form a ‘Dimer’, a monomer farther added with a dimer
will form ‘trimar’s.
Equivalently, the degree of polymerization (DP) of a
monomer is defined as one. Thus a polymer having DP
as ‘n’ can react with another polymer of similar material
having DP as ‘m’ to form a polymer having DP as ‘m+n’.
Some of the examples of Polymeric materials are given
below:
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