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Patent Pending Polyethylene glycol (PEG) is a polyether compound with many applications from industrial manufacturing to medicine. The structure of PEG is (note the repeated element in parentheses): H-(O-CH2-CH2)n-OH PEG is also known as polyethylene oxide (PEO) or polyoxyethylene (POE), depending on its molecular weight.