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Is poly amides a polymer

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13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

A polymer is a large molecule made up of repeating units. These units are called monomers. In a polymer, monomers may be both identical or non identical. In polyamide, as the name suggests, the monomers are amides and it is a polymer.

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