Nylon was designed to be a synthetic silk. (a) The average molar mass of a batch of

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Nylon was designed to be a synthetic silk.
(a) The average molar mass of a batch of nylon 66 is 12,000 g/mol. How many monomer units are there in this sample?
(b) Which part of nylon's structure is similar to a polypeptide's structure?
(c) How many different tripeptides (made up of three amino acids) can be formed from the amino acids alanine (Ala), glycine (Gly), and serine (Ser), which account for most of the amino acids in silk?
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Chemistry

ISBN: 978-0077274313

10th edition

Authors: Raymond Chang

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