Swelling studies of an acrylamide/maleic acid/methylene-bis-acrylamidebased hydrogel prepared by free radical polymerization (weight ratio of 90/10/3) are presented. Water penetration mechanism was studied by using two classical definitions, i.e., Crank (F C = w t /w eq ) and Karadag (F K = (w t -w o )/w o ), of the water fraction into the hydrogel (F). An anomalous water penetration mechanism (0.5
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