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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
polymerize .
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This aldehyde is a body that can be polymerized, that is to say, is capable of combining with itself a certain number of times to form complexer bodies, especially glucose.
Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 Various
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The plastic is then shredded and mixed with asphalt to form a compound called polymerized bitumen.
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This could then be polymerized into cellophane-like polymers and used to reduce our dependency on petroleum products.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Carbon Capture a Pipe Dream? 2010
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Young, robust wines in the cellar often give me “red wine headache” where older, softer (pinot, etc.) wines with polymerized tannins have little effect.
Wine, allergies, histamines and sulfites - reactions from an allergist | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010
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Second, ribonucleiotides can be polymerized by chemical reaction catalyzed by things other than proteins.
Stephen Meyer's Bogus Information Theory - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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This could then be polymerized into cellophane-like polymers and used to reduce our dependency on petroleum products.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Carbon Capture a Pipe Dream? 2010
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Today, evynrude and I went to see the polymerized people exhibit in Hartford, which was very interesting.
In the midst of roller derby, we are in boyfriend. mcurry 2008
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A was shelved ... until polymer chemists discovered that it could be polymerized to form polycarbonate plastic.
Consumer Reports Concerned about The Chemical Bisphenol A 2009
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The idea is to be open to serendipity: every scientist makes mistakes, but only in a culture that encourages the exploration of the unknown do you get Teflon (when a Du Pont scientist working on Freon accidentally polymerized several gases into a white powder).
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The silica on the attack anthrax rested on a thin layer of polymerized glass, which is a highly advanced technique for coating anthrax spores.
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