Polymerization

URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89001625
- info:lc/authorities/sh89001625
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh89001625#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
Collection Membership(s)
- LCSH Collection - Authorized Headings
- LCSH Collection - General Collection
Variants
- Polymerisation
- Polymers--Synthesis
- Polymers and polymerization
- Synthesis of polymers
Broader Terms
- Chemical reactions
Narrower Terms
Earlier Established Forms
- Polymers and polymerization
Sources
- found: Work cat.: Intl. Sym. on Ring-Opening Polymerization (1986 : Blois, France). Ring-opening polymerization, 1987.
- found: Hawley chem. dict. (polymerization: a chemical reaction, usually carried out with a catalyst, heat or light, and often under high pressure, in which a large number of relatively simple molecules combine to form a chain-like macromolecule)
- found: Hackh chem. dict.
- found: LC database, March 6, 1989.
- found: Polymer sci. dict. (polymerisation: British form)
- found: Journal of radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry, Nov. 2002: p. 395 (Polymerization is the synthesis of high-molecularweight compounds (polymers) by successive addition of a low-molecular-weight compound (monomer) to the active site at the end of the growing polymer chain)
LC Classification
- QD196
- QD281.P6
- TP156.P6
Change Notes
- 1989-03-15: new
- 2012-02-09: revised

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