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Can you describe a polymer

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Poly- means many, so like a string of pearls, a polymer is a string of chemically bonded monomers: amino acids in proteins, sugars in polysaccharides, strands of nylon and polyacetate, polypropylene, and let us not neglect or omit DNA [polynucleotides] and Rna.

A polymer is a chemical compound or mixture of compounds consisting of repeating structural units created through a process of polymerization.

The units comprising polymers derive, actually or conceptually, from molecules of low relative molecular mass.

The terms polymer and polymeric material encompass very large, broad classes of compounds, both natural and synthetic, with a wide variety of properties. Because of the extraordinary range of properties of polymeric materials, they play an essential and ubiquitous role in everyday life, from those of familiar synthetic plastics and other materials of day-to-day work and home life, to the natural biopolymers that are fundamental to biological structure and function.

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Plastic is the general common term for a wide range of synthetic or semisynthetic organic solid materials suitable for the manufacture of industrial products. Plastics are typically polymers of high molecular weight, and may contain other substances to improve performance and/or reduce costs.

The word derives from the Greek πλαστικός (plastikos), "fit for molding", from πλαστός (plastos) "molded" [1] [2]. It refers to their malleability, or plasticity during manufacture, that allows them to be cast, pressed, or extruded into an enormous variety of shapes-such as films, fibers, plates, tubes, bottles, boxes, and much more.

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A naturally occurring or synthetic compound consisting of large molecules made up of a linked series of repeated simple monomers.

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Polymer (PAH luh muhr) A covalent compound made up of many small repeating units linked together in a chain.

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Large Molecule ok get it? hahaha :p

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