polymethylene

polymethylene

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús
Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor.
English poly-
French méthylène
English methylene
English polymethylene

    From poly- + methylene.

    Noun

    polymethylene (plural polymethylenes)

    1. (obsolete, chemistry) Any organic compound having a general formula (CH2)n
    2. (chemistry, in combination) Any of many organic compounds either having a polymeric structure of repeating -CH2- groups
    This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.