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Chemistry · Glossary

What is Copolymer?

Definition 29.15 University Chemistry — Year 2 · Chapter 29 — Polymers: Synthesis, Structure and Properties

A copolymer is a polymer built from two or more different monomers. Its units may follow each other at random (statistical copolymer), alternately, in long runs of each (block copolymer, made by living polymerisation), or as side chains of one grafted onto a backbone of the other (graft copolymer).

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