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Polymer means many monomers. Sometimes polymers are also known as macromolecules or large-sized molecules. Usually, polymers are organic (but not necessarily).

A monomer is a molecule that is able to bond in long chains.

Here is a monomer:

Here is a polymer:

A polymer can be made up of thousands of monomer.

This linking up of monomers is called polymerization

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