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autopolymerisations

autopolymerisations is the plural of autopolymerisation.

Meaning of autopolymerisation

Noun

autopolymerisation (countable and uncountable, plural autopolymerisations)

  1. A chemical reaction in which a monomer undergoes polymerisation spontaneously, often due to environmental factors such as heat, light, or inherent instability.
    • The fats remain, to be altered by heat and pressured into hydrocarbons, whose boiling points lie below 300°; and these later undergo a partial autopolymerization into denser forms.1908, Frank Wigglesworth Clarke, The Data of Geochemistry (United States Geological Survey: Series E, Chemistry and Physics, 54; Bulletin No. 330), U.S. Government Printing Office, page 634
  2. The process by which an autopolymer hardens.

Questions about autopolymerisations

What is autopolymerisations the plural of?
Autopolymerisations is the plural of autopolymerisation.

Words near autopolymerisations in the dictionary

  1. autopolar
  2. autopolarities
  3. autopolarity
  4. autopolymer
  5. autopolymerisation
  6. autopolymerisations
  7. autopolymerization
  8. autopolymerizations
  9. autopolymerize
  10. autopolymerized
  11. autopolymerizes

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