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Definition: Monomer |
MonomerNoun1. A simple compound whose molecules can join together to form polymers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Chemistry | A substance composed of molecules which are capable of reacting together to form polymers. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In chemistry, a monomer (from Greek mono "one" and meros "part") is any of several small molecular structures that may be chemically bonded together to form long multi-part polymer molecules.
Examples of monomers are hydrocarbons such as the alkane, alkene, and alene (homologous) series. Other hydrocarbon monomers such as styrene and ethene form polymers to make plastics like polystyrene and polyethene.
Amino acids are natural monomers, and polymerize to form proteins. Glucose monomers can also polymerize to form starches, amilopectins and glycogen polymers. The polymerisation reaction is known as a condensation reaction because of the loss of a hydrogen atom and a hydroxyl (-OH) group from the two monomer units. The bond between the monomers is an oxygen molecule with a bond with each monomer unit. The result of this reaction is H20, also known as water.
Also note that multiple units built up from monomers are called polymers, but can also be called dimers, trimers, tetramers, pentamers, octamers if they have 2, 3, 4, 5, or 8 monomer units. The appropriate prefix prepended to 'mers' can refer to any number of monomer units, eg, decamer, being a 10-unit monomer chain or polymer.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Monomer."
Crosswords: Monomer |
| English words defined with "monomer": cinnamene ♦ phenylethylene ♦ styrene ♦ vinylbenzene. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "monomer": Acrylamide ♦ block copolymer ♦ cell pourer, CRACKING-UNIT OPERATOR, cyanoacrylate ♦ Enbucrilate ♦ flat-sheet maker ♦ glycidyl, glycidyl methacrylate, gma, Grocery Manufacturers of America ♦ KETTLE OPERATOR ♦ methacrylate, MOLD-FILLING OPERATOR, MONOMER-PURIFICATION OPERATOR ♦ nitroso rubber ♦ Protein Disulfide-Isomerase ♦ reactor-kettle operator, recovery-unit operator ♦ TPX polymer. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Monomer" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (monomer), Hungarian (monomer), Serbo-Croatian (monomer). |
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Economic History | Qatar | Objectives: To produce ethylene di-chloride (EDC) 175,000 mtpa, vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) 230,000 mtpa and caustic soda 290,000 mtpa. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | Construction has started on the first unit of the Saudi International Petrochemical Co. (SIPC) plant, which will produce methanol, maleic anhydride, butanediol, vinyl acetate monomer and acetic acid. (references) | |
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| "Monomer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Monomer" is used about 49 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 49 | 48,677 |
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| Taiwan | Taiwan Styrene Monomer Corp. |
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Beginning with "monomer": monomer-based. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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monomer | 18 |
styrene monomer | 12 |
acetate monomer vinyl | 10 |
vinyl chloride monomer | 4 |
monomer polymer | 3 |
acetate dielectric monomer vinyl | 2 |
dajac monomer polymer | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "monomer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | monomer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 单". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | monomer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | monomeer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | monomère. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Monomer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μονομερές. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | monomer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | monomero. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | モノカルボン酸 (dag coating containing molybdenum, mobile, mohair, Mohawk, Mohawk haircut, molybdenum, moment, momism, monaural, monaural record, monocarboxylic acid, monochrome, monoclonal, mono-fluorine, monogram, monograph, monographie, monolock, monologue, monomania, monomaniac, monopolize, monopoly, monorail, monosexual, monotone, monotype, moped, moral hazard, moral majority, moral pollution, moral risk, moral sense, moral support, morale, morale survey, moralist, morality, moratorium, Morris dance, person fond of using a mobile phone, unisex). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | モノマー . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 단위체. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onomermay monómero. (various references) мономер. (various references) monomer. (various references) monómero. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "monomer": monomeric, monomers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "monomer": comonomer. (additional references) | |
Words containing "monomer": comonomers. (additional references) | |
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"Monomer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: manxome, Mexome, Molomo, Monami, Monmonier, Monnoyer, monnum, monogerm, Monomakh, monomero, monometric, monometry, Monona, Mononen, monorer, montonero, Montoyer, mooner, moonier, moonmen, Moosomin, Muotome. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "monomer" (pronounced mÄ"numer) |
| 5 | -Ä" n u m er | astronomer. |
| 3 | -u m er | customer, dulcimer, elastomer, gossamer, isomer, latecomer, Lorimer, polymer. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-m-m-n-o-o-r" | |
-2 letters: enorm, moron, romeo. | |
-3 letters: memo, meno, mome, mono, moon, moor, more, morn, nome, norm, omen, omer, room. | |
-4 letters: eon, ern, mem, men, mom, mon, moo, mor, nom, noo, nor, one, ore, rem, roe, rom. | |
-5 letters: em, en, er, me, mm, mo, ne, no, oe, om, on, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-m-m-n-o-o-r" | |
+1 letter: commoner, monogerm, monomers, motormen. | |
+2 letters: commoners, comonomer, groomsmen, metronome, monomeric, monometer, monorhyme, monotreme. | |
+3 letters: chromonema, comonomers, meromyosin, metronomes, metronomic, monochrome, monogramed, monometers, monorhymed, monorhymes, monotremes, uncommoner. | |
+4 letters: commentator, comportment, countermemo, meromyosins, monochromes, monogrammed, monogrammer, rumormonger. | |
+5 letters: chromonemata, commendatory, commentators, commissioner, comportments, countermemos, endomorphism, immoderation, memorization, metronomical, monogrammers, normothermia, normothermic, recommission, rumormongers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6F 6E 6F 6D 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- -. --- -- . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101111 01101110 01101111 01101101 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o n o m e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 006F 006E 006F 006D 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47818081797184 |
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