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Nov 2 WAT What Moved Markets This Week
Nov 2 WAT Waters Corp (WAT) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Highlights: Strong Revenue and Margin Performance Amid ...
Nov 2 WAT Q3 2024 Waters Corp Earnings Call
Nov 2 WAT Decoding Waters Corp (WAT): A Strategic SWOT Insight
Nov 1 WAT S&P 500 Gains and Losses Today: Waters Stock Surges as Sales Improve
Nov 1 WAT Waters Stock Leads S&P 500 Gains Friday as Earnings Top Estimates
Nov 1 ITW Top Research Reports for Alphabet, Booking & Union Pacific
Nov 1 WAT Waters sends peers higher after Q3 beat, guidance raise
Nov 1 WAT Waters Corporation (WAT) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript
Nov 1 WAT Waters Corporation 2024 Q3 - Results - Earnings Call Presentation
Nov 1 EMN Eastman Chemical Company (EMN) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript
Nov 1 FMC FMC Corporation and Envu complete the sale of FMC's Global Specialty Solutions business
Nov 1 EMN Eastman Chemical Company 2024 Q3 - Results - Earnings Call Presentation
Nov 1 EMN Eastman Chemical's Earnings and Revenues Surpass Estimates in Q3
Nov 1 ITW Illinois Tool Works Inc. Beat Analyst Estimates: See What The Consensus Is Forecasting For Next Year
Nov 1 WAT Waters: Q3 Earnings Snapshot
Nov 1 WAT Waters Non-GAAP EPS of $2.93 beats by $0.25, revenue of $740M beats by $26.82M
Nov 1 WAT Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) Reports Third Quarter 2024 Financial Results
Oct 31 EMN Here's What Key Metrics Tell Us About Eastman Chemical (EMN) Q3 Earnings
Oct 31 EMN Eastman Chemical (EMN) Q3 Earnings and Revenues Top Estimates
Polymers

A polymer (; Greek poly-, "many" + -mer, "part") is a large molecule, or macromolecule, composed of many repeated subunits. Due to their broad range of properties, both synthetic and natural polymers play essential and ubiquitous roles in everyday life. Polymers range from familiar synthetic plastics such as polystyrene to natural biopolymers such as DNA and proteins that are fundamental to biological structure and function. Polymers, both natural and synthetic, are created via polymerization of many small molecules, known as monomers. Their consequently large molecular mass relative to small molecule compounds produces unique physical properties, including toughness, viscoelasticity, and a tendency to form glasses and semicrystalline structures rather than crystals. The terms polymer and resin are often synonymous with plastic.
The term "polymer" derives from the Greek word πολύς (polus, meaning "many, much") and μέρος (meros, meaning "part"), and refers to a molecule whose structure is composed of multiple repeating units, from which originates a characteristic of high relative molecular mass and attendant properties. The units composing polymers derive, actually or conceptually, from molecules of low relative molecular mass. The term was coined in 1833 by Jöns Jacob Berzelius, though with a definition distinct from the modern IUPAC definition. The modern concept of polymers as covalently bonded macromolecular structures was proposed in 1920 by Hermann Staudinger, who spent the next decade finding experimental evidence for this hypothesis.Polymers are studied in the fields of biophysics and macromolecular science, and polymer science (which includes polymer chemistry and polymer physics). Historically, products arising from the linkage of repeating units by covalent chemical bonds have been the primary focus of polymer science; emerging important areas of the science now focus on non-covalent links. Polyisoprene of latex rubber is an example of a natural/biological polymer, and the polystyrene of styrofoam is an example of a synthetic polymer. In biological contexts, essentially all biological macromolecules—i.e., proteins (polyamides), nucleic acids (polynucleotides), and polysaccharides—are purely polymeric, or are composed in large part of polymeric components—e.g., isoprenylated/lipid-modified glycoproteins, where small lipidic molecules and oligosaccharide modifications occur on the polyamide backbone of the protein.The simplest theoretical models for polymers are ideal chains.

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