polymerize
Americanverb (used with object)
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
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
They had only to polymerize the chloroprene to the right point, and all of them were experienced polymerizers.
From Time Magazine Archive
During the course of roasting and subsequent cooling these decomposition products probably interact and polymerize to form aromatic tar-like materials and other complexes which play an important rôle among the delicate flavors of coffee.
From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)
“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
For one dispersion, the researchers coated the particles with the surfactant lauryl sulfate and polymerized acrylic acid, which together provide a negative charge in the neutral to alkaline pH range.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2023
Surrounding these strange tableaus are replicas of weathered cardboard, made from polymerized gypsum and cardboard, that lean on the gallery walls and seem to sigh alongside the ephemera that make up Magor’s clever arrangements.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2021
This aldehyde is a body that can be polymerized, that is to say, is capable of combining with itself a certain number of times to form complexer bodies, especially glucose.
From Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 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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