How to Use monomer in a Sentence

monomer

noun

• Gel polish is made up of acrylic monomers and oligomers that bond together when placed under UV light.
  — Jenna Rosenstein, Allure, 21 Mar. 2020
• Gel polishes are made with a mix of acrylic monomers and oligomers that harden under UV light to create a hard, glossy coat.
  — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Feb. 2023
• Most kits come with a brush along with several powders, a liquid monomer (which solidifies to make the nail hard), and a nail filer.
  — Women's Health, 24 Feb. 2023
• The idea is to break those polymers down into individual links, or monomers.
  — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2018
• The challenge is if even one monomer begins to rotate, the polymer becomes three-dimensional.
  — Michelle Shen, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2022
• Another option was to make strong new panels from the remains of the old ones: the team soaked the panels in the MMA monomer, which dissolved the hardened resin—then the researchers physically removed the glass fibers.
  — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 26 Aug. 2022
• The resulting monomers can then be re-polymerized into a new moldable plastic resin.
  — National Geographic, 13 June 2018
• Plastics like polystyrene, polymethacrylate, and polypropylene are polymers, long chains of the same repeating unit, or monomer.
  — WIRED, 3 Nov. 2022
• Clean factories would reformulate the plastics into monomers that can be used again.
  — William McDonough, Scientific American, 1 July 2017
• Styrene monomer is used in the production of disposable foam plates, cups and other products, and can produce poisonous fumes when ignited.
  — David Rising, Star Tribune, 6 July 2021
• In the percolation-theory framework, each monomer acts as a node, and two neighbors may spontaneously form a bond, or edge.
  — Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2021
• The team produced a syrupy resin by dissolving polylactide, a polymer derived from plants, in a synthetic monomer called methyl methacrylate (MMA).
  — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 26 Aug. 2022
• An intact postmortem brain is immersed in the hydrogel solution, and a kind of small molecule called a monomer , infuses the tissue.
  — Perrin Ireland, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2013
• To make plastics from those substances, manufacturers must first break them into their building blocks, or monomers.
  — Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2019
• Firefighters continued to douse the site with water and foam to keep the highly flammable chemical styrene monomer from reigniting, but flames broke out again and burned for about an hour Tuesday afternoon.
  — David Rising, Star Tribune, 6 July 2021
• Specifically, adding a GTP (guanosine triphosphate) monomer to a microtubule corresponds to a car parking after the right-most car in the idealized lot.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Wired, 3 Oct. 2019
• Its executives uproot lives, tear families apart, and expose workers to coal dust and vinyl chloride monomer, which has been linked to liver tumors.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 21 June 2022
• Soft gel, a formula of acrylic monomers and oligomers, is the material behind Gel-X. Until the cutting edge formula founded by Aprés, soft gel was too soft to extend into longer nails.
  — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 31 Aug. 2023
• Those panels can be recycled by dissolving them in fresh monomer, enabling the researchers to recast new panels for the next generation of wind turbines.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 Aug. 2022
• Polyurethane is a polymer, a large molecule that consists of multiple smaller molecules called monomers.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 30 Mar. 2020
• Acrylic nails are nail extensions and enhancements created by mixing powder and liquid monomer together to form a paste which is shaped onto your nails.
  — Sydney Wingfield, Glamour, 9 Dec. 2022
• Those building blocks, which chemists call monomers, are made up of groups of atoms that are derived from natural products or by the synthesis of primary chemicals from oil, natural gas, or coal.
  — National Geographic, 16 May 2018
• Specifically, adding a GTP (guanosine triphosphate) monomer to a microtubule corresponds to a car parking after the rightmost car in the idealized lot.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2019
• The energy density increased by 20% and monomer capacity increased by 35% than the normal cell.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR Canada, 15 Dec. 2020
• They're created by mixing a powder (polymer) — usually clear, but the powders come in a range of colors — and a liquid (monomer) into a dough-like consistency that can be filed and molded.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 19 Sep. 2021
• Despite efforts by firefighters to keep the highly flammable chemical styrene monomer from reigniting by continuing to douse the site with water and foam, flames broke out again and burned for about an hour Tuesday afternoon.
  — David Rising, Star Tribune, 6 July 2021
• The letters of the alphabet, the monomers of hypothetical primordial chemistry, don’t occur with equal frequency.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 Nov. 2015
• An acrylic overlay combines a liquid monomer and powder polymer, creating a hard protective layer over your natural nail.
  — Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 28 Feb. 2023
• Just as soap brings together oil and water, these cross-linkers (when applied under heat) form covalent molecular bonds that tether the diverse monomers together.
  — Susan Cosier, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2023
• Typically this involves a reaction known as polymerization, in which smaller molecules known as monomers react together to create long chains known as polymers.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Aug 2024