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are well above or below the operable polymerization temperatures, respectively.The polymerization of a majority of monomers is accompanied by an entropy decrease, due mostly to the loss in the translational degrees of freedom. In this situation, polymerization is thermodynamically allowed only when the enthalpic contribution into prevails (thus, when and , the inequality is required). Therefore, the higher the ring strain, the lower the resulting monomer concentration at equilibrium.

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