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Carraher, Jr.  \nA JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC., PUBLICATION  \nCopyright \\# 2003 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved.  \nPublished by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.  \nPublished simultaneously in Canada.  \nNo part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy feeto the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, 978-750-8400, fax 978-750-4470, or on the web [at www.copyright.com. Requests](at www.copyright.com. 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Polymers. 2. Plastics. I. Seymour, Raymond Benedict, 1912-Giant molecules. II. Title. 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