Polymerise

According to Lewes, acetylene commences to "polymerise" at a temperature of about 600° C., when it is converted into other hydrocarbons having the same percentage composition, but containing more atoms of carbon and hydrogen in their molecules. ❋ W. J. Atkinson Butterfield (N/A)

NatureWorks PLA is made from "renewable" corn but a whole lot of energy is used to sow, water, harvest, extract, ferment and polymerise the material. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Cass says the next step is for the team to collaborate with an organic chemist to find a way to polymerise the cellulose fibres. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Physiological deterioration, which begins to appear within three days, is essentially a humidity-sensitive wound response with increases in enzyme activity leading to the production of phenols including catechins and leucoanthocyanidins which in the later stages of discoloration polymerise to form condensed tannins. ❋ Unknown (1987)

On the assumption that acetylene begins to polymerise at a temperature of 100° C., ❋ W. J. Atkinson Butterfield (N/A)

It cannot altogether be granted that the value of a process for diluting acetylene with carbon dioxide has been established, except in so far as the mere presence of the diluent may somewhat diminish the tendency of the acetylene to polymerise as it passes through a hot burner (_cf. ❋ W. J. Atkinson Butterfield (N/A)

"They were engaged and often they used to talk over what they would do when Bradley's invention of a new way to polymerise isoprene, as the process is called, had solved the rubber question and had made him rich. ❋ Unknown (1908)