nonamer

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nonamer - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  oligomer \o*lig"o*mer\, n. (Chem.)
     A molecule composed of a small number of linked monomer
     units; a short polymer; -- compounds called oligomers have
     less than one hundred monomer units and usually less than
     thirty. Oligomers of increasing length are called dimer,
     trimer, tetramer, pentamer, hexamer, heptamer,
     octamer, nonamer, decamer, etc. In colloquial
     laboratory jargon, they may also be referred to as
     nine-mer, ten-mer, eleven-mer, twelve-mer, etc.,
     especially for oligomers of greater than eight units.
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