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What are plastics

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Examples of materials known as polymers

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Define polymers

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Long chains of molecules formed by a large number of monomers

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What is addition polymerisation

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Joining together of thousands of small unsaturated monomers to form a polymer

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What is a repearing unit?

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The shortest section of the polymer chain which if repeated would yeild the complete polymer chain (exept for the end groups)

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