07559
monolith
IUPAC Gold Book - monolith
10.1351/goldbook.MT07559
MT07559
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Shaped, fabricated, intractable article with a homogeneous microstructure which does not exhibit any structural components distinguishable by optical microscopy.
- The article is usually fabricated by cold pressing or hot pressing of a polymeric material, or by using a reactive processing technique such as reaction injection moulding, crosslinking, sol-gel processing, sintering, etc.
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crosslinking
https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/CT07136
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gel
https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/G02600
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polymeric
https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/M03667
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reaction injection moulding
https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/RT07628
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sintering
https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/S05704
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sol
https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/S05727
- PAC, 2007, 79, 1801. 'Definitions of terms relating to the structure and processing of sols, gels, networks, and inorganic-organic hybrid materials (IUPAC Recommendations 2007)' on page 1812 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac200779101801)
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Citation: 'monolith' 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.MT07559
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