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Heeger, MacDiarmid, and Shirakawa shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing the “conductive” type of these molecules. (15[3])The (-5[1])degree of forming these molecules equals one over one minus the extent of the reaction according to the Carothers (15[1])(“ker-OTHERS”) equation. (15[1])Olefin-based (15[1])examples of these molecules can be formed using a catalyst named for (*) Ziegler and Natta. These (10[1])molecules are usually represented by a chemical formula inside parentheses with a subscript n. (10[1])These molecules are formed via step-growth and chain-growth mechanisms. For 10 points, kevlar and nylon are examples of what type of molecules made of monomer subunits? ■END■

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