Contour Length

Contour length is a term used in molecular physics. The contour length of a polymer chain (a big molecule consisting of many similar smaller molecules) is its length at maximum physically possible extension.^[1] Contour length is equal to the product of the number of segments of polymer molecule(n) and its length(l).

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