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Types of Plastics

Mind map: Types of plastics
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Types of Plastics
Thermoplastics
- Different types
- PE
- PS
- PVC
- PP
- PET
- TEFLON
- PC
- Are plastics that are softened by heating and can be formed and melted as many times as we like
- Different types
Thermoset
- Different types
- Melamine
- Bakelite
- Polyester resins
- The polymer chains of thermoset plastics criss cross to form networks once they have been formed they cannot be re melted to create differnet forms
- Different types
Elastometers
- Rubber
- Neoprene
- Are very flexible materials that recover their shape and dimensions when external forces stop acting on them
Plastics are materials formed by chains of carbon and hydrogen atoms
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- Mind Map on Types of Plastics, created by Dawid Piotr Rokoszak on 16/03/2020.
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- Dawid Piotr Rokoszak
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