Addition Polymers are Made Under High Pressure

Question 1

What do the monomers that make up addition polymers have?

Answer 1

A carbon-carbon double bond - they’re alkenes

Question 2

What will many small molecules of under high pressure and with a catalyst to help them along?

Answer 2

Open up those double bonds and ‘join hands’ (polymerise) to from very long saturated chains - polymers

Question 3

See diagram for ethene become poly(ethene)

Answer 3

Ok