Polymer vs Polysquaraine - What's the difference?
polymer | polysquaraine |
(organic chemistry) A long or larger molecule consisting of a chain or network of many repeating units, formed by chemically bonding together many identical or similar small molecules called monomers. A polymer is formed by polymerization, the joining of many monomer molecules.
A material consisting of such polymer molecules.
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, title= (organic chemistry) Any polymer based on squaraines, some of which have semiconducting properties
In organic chemistry terms the difference between polymer and polysquaraine
is that polymer is a long or larger molecule consisting of a chain or network of many repeating units, formed by chemically bonding together many identical or similar small molecules called monomers. A polymer is formed by polymerization, the joining of many monomer molecules while polysquaraine is any polymer based on squaraines, some of which have semiconducting properties.polymer
English
(wikipedia polymer)Noun
(en noun)Charles T. Ambrose
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