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Water-soluble copolymers having a K value of from 8 to 100 (determined on the Na salt of the copolymers according to H. Fikentscher in aqueous solution at 25.degree. C., at a pH of 7 and at a concentration of the Na salt of the polymer of 1% by weight) are prepared by copolymerization of monomer mixtures of (a) from 98.5 to 18.5 mol % of one or more monoethylenically unsaturated C.sub.3 -C.sub.6 -monocarboxylic acids, (b) from 1.5 to 20 mol % of one or more comonomers which contain two or more ethylenically unsaturated, nonconjugated double bonds which are separated from one another by one or more ester bonds, (c) from 0 to 80 mol % of one or more monoethylenically unsaturated C.sub.4 -C.sub.6 -dicarboxylic acids or their anhydrides and (d) from 0 to 20 mol % of other monoethylenically unsaturated comonomers which are copolymerizable with the monomers (a), (b) and (c), the sum of the molar percentages (a) to (d) always being 100, in the presence of a polymerization initiator and a polymerization regulator at not more than 200.degree. C. in one or more inert organic solvents.

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