Take note everyone writing or spouting (like M. Carney, the overblown Gov. of the Bonk of England) about the new plastic five pound notes: “polymer” is not “a type of thin, flexible plastic” any more than “wood” can be defined as “a material derived from trees and used to make walking sticks”.
Polymer is a generic term for materials consisting of chains comprising lots of (poly) units (mers) of a chemical compound, e.g. polyethylene (polythene), polyethyleneterephthalate (PET or Terylene™) and organic materials such as proteins and DNA.
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