14275 IUPAC Gold Book - polymer bead 10.1351/goldbook.14275 14275 current 1 Sphere of polymer, usually with a diameter in the range from one-tenth to a few millimeters. PAC, 2011, 83, 2229. 'Terminology of polymers and polymerization processes in dispersed systems (IUPAC Recommendations 2011)' on page 2230 (https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-10-06-03) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14275/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14275/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14275/plain Citation: 'polymer bead' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.14275 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-06-04T00:55:23+00:00