polywater
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of polywater
First recorded in 1965–70; poly(meric) + water
Example Sentences
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When Denis Rousseau, a postdoc at the University of Southern California, first heard about polywater, he was as intrigued as anyone.
From Slate • Nov. 8, 2013
Engineers speculated about its potential as an anti-freeze or anti-corrosive agent, while some scientists worried about the disastrous possibility that it could escape the lab and seed more polywater on its own.
From Slate • Nov. 8, 2013
Until recently, like most people, I’d never heard of polywater.
From Slate • Nov. 8, 2013
There, my great-uncle saw Ellis Lippincott, a University of Maryland chemist, give a talk on his inconclusive attempts to analyze the infrared spectrum absorbed by polywater.
From Slate • Nov. 8, 2013
It’s hard to imagine a better example of this than polywater.
From Slate • Nov. 8, 2013
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