(1) The monomer , ethene or ethylene, is obtained in large quantities from the cracking of petroleum.(2) Addition polymerization reactions use free radical monomers to produce polymers.(3) It is produced through a free radical polymerization reaction of styrene monomers .(4) Sodium polyacrylate is a polymer containing many acrylate monomers connected end-to-end in a large chain.(5) In red wines oxygen aids in the formation of pigmented tannins with colours that are more permanent than those of monomeric anthocyanins.(6) Polymerization is another type of chemical reaction employed in organic synthesis to couple small monomeric units into a much larger chain.(7) These results were ascribed to a self-association process undergone by the monomeric antibiotic molecules within the lipid bilayer.(8) In all cases the monomeric lipid molecule is virtually absent, dimeric or trimeric species predominating in each case.(9) What Blackmond realised was that it was the dimers, not the monomers , that were catalytically active, and only the heterochiral dimer was not active.(10) Polystyrene is a high molecular weight polymer made up of repeating monomeric units of styrene.
