polycaprolactam

English

Etymology

From poly- +‎ caprolactam.

Noun

polycaprolactam (countable and uncountable, plural polycaprolactams)

  1. (chemistry) A polymer formed by ring-opening polymerization, originally developed in the 1950s as an alternative to a similar patented polymer.

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