Combined Science GCSE
polymer
What polymer means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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A very large covalent molecule built from many small repeating units called monomers.
A large molecule built from many repeating smaller units joined together.
Topics that use polymer
- Covalent bonding (AQA GCSE)
- DNA and the genome (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Ball and stick models
- Chromosome
- Correlation and causation
- Counting atoms in models
- Covalent bonding as shared pairs of electrons
- Displayed formulae
- DNA
- Dot-and-cross diagrams
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