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  • verb Present participle of polymerize.
  • adjective That polymerizes

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Examples

  • Polysorbates are made by polymerizing ethylene oxide a precursor to antifreeze with a sugar alcohol derivative.

    Cool Whip Is Lube - The Consumerist 2007

  • Polysorbates are made by polymerizing ethylene oxide a precursor to antifreeze with a sugar alcohol derivative.

    The Consumerist: April 2007 Archives 2007

  • Highly unsaturated oils—soy oil, corn oil—are especially prone to oxidation and polymerizing.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • Highly unsaturated oils—soy oil, corn oil—are especially prone to oxidation and polymerizing.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • Shirakawa had been polymerizing ordinary acetylene welding gas using a Ziegler-Natta catalyst and had been obtaining a rather uninteresting black-brown powder.

    Alan G. MacDiarmid - Autobiography 2001

  • We succeeded in simultaneously polymerizing acetylene and synthesizing uniaxially oriented polyacetylene films by orienting the catalyst solution of liquid crystal solvent under flow condition or magnetic field.

    Hideki Shirakawa - Autobiography 2001

  • Prize in Chemistry for a technique for polymerizing ethylene or propylene into plastics; the Japanese scientists used the same catalyst for polymerizing acetylene.

    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000 - Presentation Speech 2000

  • Despite of our use of cytochalasin B in extract preparation to prevent a massive contamination of the microtubule pellet with polymerizing actin filaments

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Vincent Gache et al. 2010

  • Primacor is manufactured in small pellets by co-polymerizing raw materials in a reactor at an adhesive polymer facility in Plant B, plant production leader Rich Caus said.

    The Facts: News 2010

  • Primacor is manufactured in small pellets by co-polymerizing raw materials in a reactor at an adhesive polymer facility in Plant B, plant production leader Rich Caus said.

    The Facts: News 2010

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