polymer

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University of Calgary chemists Jeff Hurd and Professor George Shimizu said they discovered a material that allows a fuel cell -- known as a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell -- to work at a higher temperature.

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  1. noun Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds of usually high molecular weight consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units, each a relatively light and simple molecule.

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  • It's a layered structure that's mineral and then polymer, and it makes it very, very tough. —  Janine Benyus shares nature's designs
  • The glass screen is coated with a polymer, a plastic that human skin oil doesn't adhere to very well. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets
  • The polymer is an organic (from organisms) compound, carbon-based. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets
  • "The results from LEADERS are very significant as they demonstrate for the first time that a drug-eluting stent with an abluminal biodegradable polymer is as safe and effective at nine months as a conventional drug-eluting stent with a durable polymer, considered to be the most effective, under conditions which resemble those of routine clinical practice", commented LEADERS Principal Investigator Professor Stephan Windecker, University Hospital, Bern, —  Presseportal
  • Bio-mimicry continues to provide interesting answers to perplexing problems of science and technology, and the use of chitosan as part of a self-healing polymer is another example. —  PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
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  1. Greek polumerēs, consisting of many parts : polu-, poly- + meros, part; see (s)mer-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from polymer-ous.
 

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