Category:Polymeric

Pol`y*mer"ic, a. Etym: [poly- + gr. (chem.)

Defn: having the same percentage composition (that is, having the Same elements united in the same proportion by weight), but different Molecular weights; -- often used with with; thus, cyanic acid (cnoh), Fulminic acid (c2n2o2h2), and cyanuric acid (c3n3o3h3), are polymeric With each other.

Note: the figures expressing the number of atoms of each element in a Number of polymeric substances are respectively multiples and factors Of each other, or have some simple common divisor. The relation may Be merely a numerical one, as in the example given above, or a Chemical one, as in the case of aldehyde, paraldehyde, and Metaldehyde.