What is a neat polymer?
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What is a neat polymer?
Polymers and Plastics:
What we call plastics are seldom pure compounds of polymer. They typically contain other chemicals that provide the necessary physical characteristics needed for using the material in manufacturing, like melting temperature, appropriate flexibility, structural stabilization, etc. These chemicals are termed plasticizers and hence the name plastics for the general group of finished compounds.
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View this answerWhen a polymeric material exits a polymerization reaction chamber, it is devoid of plasticizers and is essentially pure polymer. This is termed a...
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Chapter 4 / Lesson 19Learn about polymerization. Understand what polymerization is, explore types of polymerization based on the reaction to generate it, its process, and find examples.