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  • noun chemistry Any of a class of electrically conducting polymers whose repeat unit is a pyrrole

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Examples

  • The group used polypyrrole-cadmium nanowires for their motor.

    Softpedia News - Global Tudor Vieru 2010

  • One conductive polymer, polypyrrole (PPy), shows promise, but was often regarded as too inefficient for commercial batteries.

    U.S. News 2009

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  • Polypyrroles is a pesky plural of polypyrrole, a plain polymer with repeating pyrrole parts and not a perfunctory pyrrolocarbazole.

    August 27, 2022