Foundations of Materials Science and Engineering
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Chapter 10.14, Problem 69AAP
An injection-molding polycarbonate material has an average molecular weight of 25,000 g/mol. Calculate its degree of polymerization (see Sec. 10.7 for the mer structure of polycarbonate M.W. = 254 g/mol).
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