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Plastics Flashcards

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Properites of plastics

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  1. they are examples of polymers - very large molecules formed by the joing of smaller molecules called monomers.
  2. The uses of plastics are releated to their chemical properites,
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Naming polymers

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the name of the polymer come from the name of the monomer used to make it

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Monomer: Propene

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poly(propene)

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Monomer: Phenylethene

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poly(phenlethene)

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Polymerisation

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is the process in which the small monomer units join together to form a large polymer molecule

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additional polymerisation

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is a process involving many small unsatured monomers combining to form one large polyer molecule,

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