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A description of the different methods of polymerization is required. These include the bulk, emulsion, suspension, solution, precipitation and dispersion polymerization methods. Some on these topics alread have article/stubs, and should be linked to. Msmi121 01:44, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
Ok, I'm going to be writing a new article on celluloid, and just as an fyi, celluloid is NOT just nitrocellulose. Minimally, it's nitrocellulose (70-80 parts) plus camphor (30 parts or so), plus dyes (0-14 parts), plus ethyl alcohol (1-5 parts), plus all the other extras that get put into plastics. Dwmyers.
Last edit removed for the following reasons: Addition polymerization and step-growth polymerization do not refer to the way monomer feed is added to a polymerisation. interfacial and emulsion polymerisation do no represent a means of polymerisation (molecular mechanism) but reflect a set of reaction conditions. radical / cationic / anionic polymerisation belong to the class of addition polymerisation and not step growth. Consult the separate articles addition polymerization and step-growth polymerization . Also, living polymerization can only be archieved with very special reaction conditions. Coordinated polymerization belongs to addition polymerisation. It is always a good idea to include references in an article like ref 1. for this article any book on introduction to polymer chemistry will do.
There was originally a huge chunk of text (apparently copied and pasted), and somewhat incoherent in nature. I have wikified and better organised the information, but it still does not sound like a proper encyclopedia article. This reason, coupled with the apparent fact that the article was copied and pasted, justifies a rewrite (or at least extensive rephrasing).
— 0612 (TALK); Posted: 11:17, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
How can polymerization be reversed? -lysdexia 00:52, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
In Introduction, the second sentence should be modified. "... alkenes, which are a relatively stable due to bonding ..." requires either deleting the indeinite article before "relatively" OR possibly a noun after "stable". I don't know which of the two possibilities would be more correct.---- —Preceding unsigned comment added by Svato (talk • contribs) 02:23, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
I came to this article looking for information on whether it was possible to polymerise methane to form propane or butane (partly to answer a question at talk:butane). The article specifically refers to double bonds and alkenes and seems a little ambiguous about polymerising single bonds. Does this imply that it's not possible to polymerise alkanes, or has it just not been mentioned? --Athol Mullen (talk) 13:37, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
Since the US is not the centre of the world, I propose that the spelling be changed to the more widely accepted Polymerisation (in conjunction with the UK, Australia, Canada and others).--Welcome to the dark side. (talk) 05:44, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
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The chemical breakdown of plastics and other polymers due to time, light, and heat. For a solid polymer, can result in softer (shorter-length) polymers and/or in small molecules that form liquids, gases, or both.
Does this edit refer to this sort of thing? Seems a bit obscure to me... but if we are going to mention it I think we need to be clearer.
The edit added the following phrase (in bold here to highlight the new bit):
Yaris678 (talk) 22:32, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
I appreciate the way the IUPAC definition is presented in the article. Not sure if it was intended or accidental, but I feel that the style can be utilized elsewhere. Cyan.aqua 09:30, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
Why does the term photopolymerization currently redirects to this article, when currently this article never describes "photopolymerization"? ( I added a single sentence section that mentions one application of photopolymerization, but it still doesn't describe what photopolymerization is).
Was there maybe once information about photopolymerization in this article, but somehow it was accidentally lost? --DavidCary (talk) 14:19, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
Can someone clarify/rewrite 'While not used to a large extent in industry yet due to stringent reaction conditions such as lack of water and oxygen, these methods provide ways to polymerize some monomers that cannot be polymerized by free radical methods such as polypropylene. ' thanks DGerman (talk) 18:56, 28 November 2016 (UTC)
The article Cyanoacrylate includes the statement: " rapidly polymerises in the presence of water (specifically hydroxide ions)".
This does't seem to be covered this article, should it be? DGerman (talk) 19:01, 28 November 2016 (UTC)
I removed this statement from the lede since it is obscure (barely true, except in some semantic sense) and has no significance: "Alkanes can also be polymerized, but only with the help of strong acids.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Roberts |first1=Durward T. |last2=Calihan |first2=Lawrence E. |date=1973-12-01 |title=Polymerization (Polycondensation) of Alkanes over Fluosulfonic Acid and Antimony Pentafluoride |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/00222337308066378 |journal=Journal of Macromolecular Science: Part A - Chemistry |volume=7 |issue=8 |pages=1629–1640 |doi=10.1080/00222337308066378 |issn=0022-233X}}</ref>"--Smokefoot (talk) 17:06, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
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