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polyvinyl (n.)
1930,
polymer
of
vinyl
chloride
. In chemistry,
vinyl
was used from 1863 as the name of a univalent radical derived from ethylene, from Latin
vinum
"wine" (see
wine
(n.)), because ethyl alcohol is the ordinary alcohol present in wine.
