English-German translations for polymer

• Polymer das
  Sie wird zum Beispiel in der Stahlindustrie weiterhin notwendig sein, und auch Studien zu ihrer Nutzung als Rohmaterial für Polymere lieferten viel versprechende Ergebnisse. It will still be needed, for example, in the steel industry, and studies of its use as a raw material for polymers have been encouraging.
• Kunststoff der

Definition of polymer

• 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

Related words

• copolymer
• photopolymer
• polymerization
• polymerase
• polymerize
• biopolymer
• polymerous
• homopolymer
• polymerisation