isn't a polymer considered a poly-multimer of undefined size ? And you use multi once you run out with your greek naming scheme say when > icosahedron ?
Jürgen P.S. where are all those greeks to shed some light on us ? On Jun 18, 2012, at 11:48 AM, Jacob Keller wrote: Okay, I wiki'd it, and according to them seems you're right: it says they are "typically connected by covalent chemical bonds." So either we revert to the etymological use of "polymer," or move onward to "myriomer!" (assuming the cross-bred "multimer" is out of the question!) JPK On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:37 AM, David Schuller <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On 06/18/12 11:17, Jacob Keller wrote: But anyway, what is wrong with calling her structures "polymers?" Is there a subtle covalent insinuation to "polymer?" subtle? No, it's not subtle. -- ======================================================================= All Things Serve the Beam ======================================================================= David J. Schuller modern man in a post-modern world MacCHESS, Cornell University [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> -- ******************************************* Jacob Pearson Keller Northwestern University Medical Scientist Training Program email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ******************************************* ...................... Jürgen Bosch Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute 615 North Wolfe Street, W8708 Baltimore, MD 21205 Office: +1-410-614-4742 Lab: +1-410-614-4894 Fax: +1-410-955-2926 http://web.mac.com/bosch_lab/
