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Tweet suff. 1. Polymer: elastomer. 2. Isomer: epimer. [German, -mer (as in Polymer, polymer and Isomer, isomer) and French -mère, both from Greek meros, part; see (s)mer-2 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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