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What does atactic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (medicine) Of or pertaining to ataxia
  2. (chemistry) Describing any regular polymer or other macromolecule in which the orientation of the subunits is random
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A polymer with a random orientation of groups is said to be atactic.
The material that results from such a process has methyl groups arranged randomly, and so is called atactic.
But if there is no order, as is the case with the atactic polystyrene, packing can't occur.

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