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polyethyleneoxide

polyethyleneoxide noun: synonym of polyethylene glycol.

Noun

polyethyleneoxide (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of polyethylene glycol.
    • Examples include polystyrene, polyethylene, polypropylene, cis-polyisoprene, polydimethylsiloxane, polyethyleneoxide and styrene-butadiene rubber.2016, Carsten Svaneborg, Hossein Ali Karimi-Varzaneh, Nils Hojdis, Frank Fleck, Ralf Everaers, “Kremer-Grest models for universal properties of specific common polymer species”, in arXiv

Synonyms of polyethyleneoxide

Forms of polyethyleneoxide

alternative formpoly(ethylene oxide)

Origin of polyethyleneoxide

From poly- + ethyleneoxide.

Questions about polyethyleneoxide

What does polyethyleneoxide mean?
Polyethyleneoxide means synonym of polyethylene glycol.
What part of speech is polyethyleneoxide?
Polyethyleneoxide is a noun.

Words near polyethyleneoxide in the dictionary

  1. polyethylene terephthalate
  2. polyethyleneglycol
  3. polyethyleneglycols
  4. polyethyleneimine
  5. polyethyleneimines
  6. polyethyleneoxide
  7. polyethylenes
  8. polyethylenic
  9. polyethylenimine
  10. polyetiological
  11. polyetiologically

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