polymerize
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verb (used without object)
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And skip the cooking spray: It can polymerize, leaving behind a sticky residue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
After the animal is caught, the resin begins to polymerize and harden.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2014
They had only to polymerize the chloroprene to the right point, and all of them were experienced polymerizers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Heat and pressure polymerize this substance into a tough, elastic product which looks much like crude natural rubber, but far surpasses it in resistance to age, heat, sunlight and gases.
From Time Magazine Archive
Apparently this is because it facilitates the solution of bromostyrene in the tarry by-products and thus causes it to polymerize instead of reacting with the potassium hydroxide.
From Organic Syntheses by James Bryant Conant
“Maybe the material has already polymerized in that outlet,” Picazo said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026
Last year a Mars rover discovered organic compounds, or substances that have been polymerized with carbon.
From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2024
They coated the cloth with two specialized monomers that were then polymerized.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2023
Glucagon causes the liver to convert the polymerized sugar glycogen into glucose through a process known as glycogenolysis.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
But it has been already proved that acetylene may be polymerized, so as to produce aromatic carbides, or the derivatives of marsh gas, by the absorption of hydrogen.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 by Various
Why were the butadiene plants and the polymerizing plants not built?
From Time Magazine Archive
Goodrich's Koroseal is made by adding hydrogen chloride to acetylene, then polymerizing.
From Time Magazine Archive
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