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Proposed that polymeric substances consist of very large covalently connected molecules rather than only loose aggregates of small molecules.
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The record is the 1920 proposal and does not claim immediate consensus or absorb later experimental confirmation and polymer engineering.
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- Staudinger, Uber Polymerisation (1920)
- Royal Society of Chemistry: Staudinger and a century of macromolecular science
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Hermann Staudinger
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Staudinger: polymers as long-chain macromolecules
Proposed that polymeric substances consist of very large covalently connected molecules rather than only loose aggregates of small molecules.
Scientific scope
The record is the 1920 proposal and does not claim immediate consensus or absorb later experimental confirmation and polymer engineering.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
Hermann Staudinger
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.