What is a Polymer?

What is a Polymer?

1. Is very very large molecule made up of chains or rings of monomers

   • Carbon and Hydrogen are the most common atoms in monomers, oxygen, nitrogen, chlorine, fluorine, silicon and sulfur may also present

2. is a Chemical compound whe the molecules are bonded together in long repeating chains

3. Polymers have unique properties and can be tailored depending on their intended purpose

4. Polymers are present in the human body, animals, plants, minerals and manufactured products

5. Polymers can be arranged if they are amorphous, this polymers has not 3 dimensional order in which the polymer chains arrage themselves, this polymers are transparent

6. If the polymer has all the same monomers then it is said to be a homopolymer, can be a block copolymer or a random copolymer

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