What is "polymerized"

Usage examples of "polymerized".

The bacteria had apparently polymerized the sea water, altering its molecular structure, creating a fourth state of water: not liquid, solid, or gaseous, but something inbetween.

Arms sheathed in polymerized horn flashed, fingers like knives cut through guts and muscles.

The first trips to Earth had fetched only wood, which had then been vaporized with the heat of focused sunlight, exposed to catalysts, condensed, polymerized, and formed in sheets.

Eventually, many of the polyethylene bags and plastic containers were screened out for burning, but almost nothing was known about what happens when plastics burn, and in fact most such polymerized substances simply evaporated, adding to the enormous load of air pollution, which by 1969 had reached the highest levels of the atmosphere from jet exhausts.