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Polymer components should be called monomers. #137
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We actually discussed this quite a bit. :)
Ultimately, the problem is that only a subset of elements are 'monomers' and there are many more that are themselves compositions of other elements, in which case calling them 'monomers' is probably incorrect.
There is still a lot of fun to be had with this naming I think. :)
For correctness, maybe you could call them prepolymers, or precursors, but monomer just seems easier to understand.
But any particular custom element can have arbitrary 'molecular weight'.
If the library is called Polymer, and its guiding principle is that everything is a component, you pretty much have to.