Definition of polyethylene oxide in English:
polyethylene oxide
noun
Any polymer in which the repeating unit is the group —OCH₂ CH₂ —; especially any of a class of thermoplastics of high molecular weight made from ethylene oxide or ethylene glycol (usually by copolymerization of both) and used especially as water-soluble films.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in Chemical Abstracts.
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