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    Number average molecular mass is obtained by dividing the total molecular mass of a sample by the total number of molecules. It emphasizes the smaller molecules present compared to weight average and z-average molecular masses, which emphasize larger molecules. For an equimolecular mixture of samples with molecular masses of 50,000 and 100,000, the number average molecular mass would be the average of the two masses, or 75,000.

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    Number average molecular mass is obtained by dividing the total molecular mass of a sample by the total number of molecules. It emphasizes the smaller molecules present compared to weight average and z-average molecular masses, which emphasize larger molecules. For an equimolecular mixture of samples with molecular masses of 50,000 and 100,000, the number average molecular mass would be the average of the two masses, or 75,000.

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    Number average molecular mass is obtained by dividing the total molecular mass of a sample by the total number of molecules. It emphasizes the smaller molecules present compared to weight average and z-average molecular masses, which emphasize larger molecules. For an equimolecular mixture of samples with molecular masses of 50,000 and 100,000, the number average molecular mass would be the average of the two masses, or 75,000.

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    Number average molecular mass is obtained by dividing the total molecular mass of a sample by the total number of molecules. It emphasizes the smaller molecules present compared to weight average and z-average molecular masses, which emphasize larger molecules. For an equimolecular mixture of samples with molecular masses of 50,000 and 100,000, the number average molecular mass would be the average of the two masses, or 75,000.

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    Number average molecular mass

    Number average molecular mass is obtained by dividing the total molecular mass of the
    sample by total number of molecules.

    Ni = number of molecules
    Mi = molecular mass
    Mass average molecular mass

    1. To improve processing properties, an equal weight of low molecular


    mass, nylon 6,6 (degree of polymerization n = 100) is blended with a
    moulding grade of nylon 6 (n = 500). Assuming both materials are
    monodisperse, what will be:-

    a) The weight average molecular mass

    b) The number average molecular mass

    Kalau macam soalan ni, yang mana dia punya M? no idea la puan..

    distribution can be described by average molecular masses, of which the most important are the
    number-average molecular mass

    the weight-average molecular mass


    and the z-average molecular mass

    where N i and W i are the number and weight of chains of molecular mass M respectively. Since Wi =
    NiMi, Equation (5) can be rewritten as

    and Equation (6) becomes

    Each measure of molecular mass gives a different emphasis. emphasises the smaller molecules
    present whereas and emphasise the larger molecules. It is clear therefore that
    as shown in Figure 28. A simple example suffices to demonstrate the point. An
    equimolecular (i.e. equimolar) mixture of samples of molecular mass 50 000 and 100 000 will have
    the following average values:
    The breadth of the distribution is usually defined by the dispersion, which is the simple ratio of
    weight- to number-average molecular masses

    which is unity for a monodisperse polymer but is usually greater than unity. High density
    polyethylenes have values from 6 to 12 while LDPE is usually much broader in distribution (
    up to ca. 30). New metallocene polyolefins, however, have low dispersions of about 2.5. In polymers
    like nylon it is also much sharper, with values in the region of 2.0.

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