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Reactions designed to produce these molecules can exhibit a dangerous thermal runaway (-5[1])in autoacceleration. Titanium or aluminum-based catalysts for making these molecules can control whether they are isotactic (“eye-so-tactic”), syndiotactic (“sin-dee-oh-tactic”), or atactic (“ay-tactic”). These molecules have their dispersity index measured with dynamic light scattering. These molecules are the targeted product of reactions that contain initiation, propagation, and termination steps, (10[1])and (10[1])proceed in a “chain-growth” (10[1])manner. (10[1]0[1]-5[1])Common examples of these molecules used in clothing include Teflon and nylon. (10[3]-5[1])For (10[1])10 points, name these macromolecules that consist of many repeating monomers. (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: polymers [accept chain-growth polymerization]
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