Polymers

Polymers

1. A polymer is a substance of high relative formula mass, made up of small repeating units.

2. a monomer is a small molecule containing a C=C bond

3. It is too difficult to model a complete addition polymer molecule, as it contains many atoms. Instead, we show the structure of its repeating unit, the part that is repeated many times. To deduce the structure of a polymer from the monomer

4. Poly(ethene) is a polymer made from very many ethene molecules combined together.

   • - ethene is the monomer - poly(ethene) is the polymer