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Polymerize meaning
(organic chemistry) To convert a monomer to a polymer by polymerization. | To undergo polymerization.
Synonyms of Polymerize
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As cyanoacrylates age, they polymerize, become thicker, and cure more slowly.
Borate is problematic; Borate can polymerize, and/or interact with cis diols such as those found in RNA.
Dynamins polymerize around the neck of an incoming vesicle, and their phosphorylation by c-SRC provides the energy necessary for the conformational change allowing the final "pinching off" from the membrane.
Fatty acids are made by fatty acid synthases that polymerize and then reduce acetyl-CoA units.
If the dimer concentration is greater than the critical concentration, the microtubule will polymerize and grow.
These catalysts polymerize propylene and other 1-alkenes to highly crystalline isotactic polymers.
The two aldehydes of greatest importance in industry, formaldehyde and acetaldehyde, have complicated behavior because of their tendency to oligomerize or polymerize.
They show greater tendency to polymerize or oligomerize than alkenes do.