Polymers are molecules that are really, really big! Long polymer molecules consist of many monomer units joined together. If we imagine a polymer as a train, a monomer would be a boxcar and a typical polymer might have 10,000 boxcars. That seems big, but what can we compare it to? Most polymers ar...

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2010 was an outstanding year for the Chicago Section. Among our continuing activities, there were 10 Section Meetings, our 7th year of participation with six other IL Local Sections in having an exhibit tent at the IL State Fair for 11,400 visitors, Chemistry Day with 650 attendees, our HS S...

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