POLYPROPYLENE is a polymer used to make the fabric by the same name.
Many outdoor clothes are made of this material because it whisks water
away from the skin and keeps you warm. As you can see, POLYPROPYLENE
is made be bonding many PROPYLENE molecules together. The polymer displayed
here is only a small piece of a very large molecule that extends in
both directions.
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GLUCOSE
AMYLOSE
Polypropylene is more typical of the type of molecule normally referred
to as a polymer. However, nature makes lots of polymers. The building
block for AMYLOSE, a major component of starch in foods, is GLUCOSE.
Your body breaks down AMYLOSE and other carbohydrates into the simple
sugar GLUCOSE before it can be used as a source of energy.