crystallinity
Noun
Meaning
(uncountable) The condition of being crystalline
(countable) The degree to which a material (e.g. a polymer or a rock) is crystalline
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Adstif HA1152 by LyondellBasell is a high crystallinity polypropylene (PP) homopolymer grade.
Few synthetic polymers are entirely crystalline. citation The crystallinity of polymers is characterized by their degree of crystallinity, ranging from zero for a completely non-crystalline polymer to one for a theoretical completely crystalline polymer.
He discovered that these polymers are crystalline materials and ascribed their crystallinity to a special feature of the polymer structure called stereoregularity.
Polymers display varying degrees of crystallinity, and many are completely non-crystalline.
Synthetic polymers may consist of both crystalline and amorphous regions; the degree of crystallinity may be expressed in terms of a weight fraction or volume fraction of crystalline material.
The amount of crystallinity depends on the details of formation, as well as on the kind of nylon.