monomer
monomer
Definition
mono·mer (män′ə mər)
mon′o·mer′ic (-mer′ik) adjective
monomer
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- call: A polymer is a long molecule made up of lots of repeating units called monomers.
- cover: The input masks can have any grid or axis ordering, and may cover a single monomer or the whole multimer.
Preposition: in
- unit: The final model of Tm GAPDH is made up of 2 monomers in the asymmetric unit with 332 amino acid residues each.
Adjective modifier
- different: Different plastics are made by linking together different monomers into different length chains.
- other: The other monomer is a 6 carbon chain with an amino group, -NH 2, at each end.
- new: At a point in time when the PM is most distant from the filament end, a new monomer is able to add on.
- single: Proteins are long chains, or polymers, of single monomers called amino acids.
- many: A polymer is generated by joining many monomers together.
- acrylate: Resin binder produced from the copolymerisation of styrene and acrylic monomers Acrylic A synthetic resin produced by polymerising various acrylic or acrylate monomers.
Modifies a noun
- molecule: The general reaction is small monomer molecule == long polymer molecule as the small molecules link together to form a long chain.
- unit: The active site is made up from the residues of two monomer units.
- description: Library Files The format of monomer descriptions and all library files is an extension of mmCIF.
- library: The monomer library files describe the internal geometry of a monomer - they may contain complete or minimal descriptions of the monomers.
- content: At the time of the incident there was no way of knowing that the temperature of the monomer feed vessel contents was rising.
Noun used with modifier
- styrene: Currently we are changing grades of ABS to ones that give off very much less styrene monomers during processing.
- actin: The actin monomer can exchange bound ADP for ATP.
- alkene: Understand that the variety of possible small alkene monomer molecules leads to a variety of different polymers with differing properties.
- chloride: Harry Barnes has been asking questions relating to the effects of exposure to the chemical vinyl chloride monomer.
- vinyl: Harry Barnes has been asking questions relating to the effects of exposure to the chemical vinyl chloride monomer.
- insulin: The Insulin Monomer The insulin monomer is a compact globular structure with a hydrophobic core.
Browse dictionary entries near monomer
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- monolith
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- monolayer
- monohydroxy
- monohydric
- monohydrate
- monohull
- monomerous
- monometallic
- monometallism
- monomial
- monomode fiber
- monomolecular
- monomorphic
- Monongahela
- mononuclear
- mononucleosis
