Is water polymer or monomer?

Question

Is water polymer or monomer?
What's the meaning of polymer or monomer?
Does monomer just mean a single molecule of an element?
like O-H-O

And polymer means lots of those "single molecule"? like:
with lots of O-H-O joined together?

Please answer it as simple as possible. THanks :)

Answer 1

Neither. Water does not form a compound structure comprising many repetitions to form chain-like compounds as do some carbon molecules.
A monomer is a molecule which can do that. The polymer is the resulting combining of those monomers.

Answer 2

Well, without specific information on what kind of molecules make up your polymer, we have to ballpark it. If there are 10 monomers in the polymer, that means that it is comprised of ten separate, small molecules that are linked together. Therefore, if water is going to be used in breaking those bonds apart, you'd need 9 molecules of water because there are 9 bonds connecting 10 monomers. Look at it like this; we'll assign letters for each monomer. A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-J Count each line, - , as a bond and you'll see that there are nine of them connecting all of the individual letters, so even though we have 10 letters (monomers) we only have 9 bonds between them. Without more data, the only answer I can give you is that you need 9 water molecules to hydrolyze and break down bonds between monomers in a 10-unit polymer.

Answer 3

water is a monomer containing 2Hydrogen & a oxygen atom. Polymers are formed by combination of same or different monomers in a long chain .eg. polyethene is formed by combination of ethene molecules in a chain like structure(which is counted as one).

Answer 4

Water is composed of hydrogen & oxygen therefore it is polymer meaning more than one..

Answer 5

Water is not a polymer.