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What is an initiator?

What is an initiator? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. One who initiates
  2. (chemistry) A substance that initiates a chain reaction or polymerization
  3. (computing) A task (in a mainframe computer) that initiates multiple jobs
  4. (medicine) A material whose presence in the body eventually leads to cancer
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For the synthetic studies, we made the peptides by polymerising an activated form of the amino acid using a nucleophile as an initiator.
This causes scission of an initiator molecule which produces free radicals in the presence of an aliphatic amine accelerator.
After creating some initial noise its initiator immediately moved to disband it.
He was the initiator of the scheme and probably its architect.
A monomer-soluble initiator is added in order to initiate chain-growth polymerization.
That composer may be more of an initiator than a completer, but the initial, generative idea is the composer's alone.

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