unimern.
/ˈjuːnɪmə/ Chemistry.
One of the single molecules (usually macromolecules) that go to make up a multimeric aggregation. Cf. multimer n.
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1967 Chimia XXI. 53/1 Methods to determine the association of macromolecules and to calculate the molecular weight of the unimer..are discussed.
1972 H.-G. Elias in M. B. Huglin Light Scattering from Polymer Solutions ix. 399 A unimer of molecular weight MI will multimerize to a multimer with a degree of multimerization Ñ.
1976 H.-G. Elias in K. Solc Order in Polymer Solutions 218 Most synthetic polymers are polymolecular, i.e., the unimers possess a distribution of degrees of polymerization.
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