Comprehensive Polymer Science 
Subtitle: Chain Polymerization II
Publisher: Pergamon
Published: April 1, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 602
ISBN-13: 9780080362083
Subjects: Plastics & polymers technology; Chemistry - Organic; Engineering - Chemical & Biochemical; Textiles & Polymers; Science / Chemistry / Organic; Science; Science/Mathematics
First sentence: One of the most important achievements in the field of synthetic polymer chemistry during the past 50 years has been the discovery in 1953 by Ziegler and his co-workers that aluminum alkyl compounds used along with many transition metal halides in an inert hydrocarbon medium could polymerize ethylene under conditions of normal temperatures and pressures to yield a solid polymer of high molecular weight and of linear structure.