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Vol. 30 No. 4
July-August 2008

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Provisional Recommendations

Dispersity
This recommendation defines just three terms, viz., molar-mass dispersity, degree-of-polymerization dispersity, and dispersity. “Dispersity” is a new word, coined to replace the misleading, but widely used term “polydispersity index.” The document, although brief, also has a broader significance in that it seeks to put the terminology describing dispersions of distributions of properties of polymeric (and non-polymeric) materials on an unambiguous and justifiable footing.

Comments by 30 September 2008
Prof. Robert Stepto
University of Manchester
Polymer Science & Technology Group (MMSC)
Manchester Materials Science CentreGrosvenor Street
Manchester M1 7HS, United Kingdom
E-mail: [email protected] or
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