The plastic washing-up bowl, the plastic measuring rule, the plastic cup -
these are examples of the use of polymeric materials. The molecules in these
plastics are very large. A molecule of oxygen consists of just two oxygen atoms
joined together. A molecule in a plastic may have thousands of atoms all joined
together in a long chain. The backbones of these long molecules are chains of
carbon atoms. Carbon atoms are able to bond together strongly to produce long
chains of carbon atoms to which other atoms can become attached.
The term polymer is used to indicate that a compound consists of man ...
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