- subunits connected by covalent chemical bonds.
extraordinary range of properties of polymeric materials
- essential and ubiquitous role in everyday life
- familiar synthetic plastics and elastomers to natural biopolymers such as nucleic acids and proteins that are essential for life.
continuously linked backbone
- used for the preparation of plastics
- consists mainly of carbon atoms
- example: polyethylene, whose repeating unit is based on ethylene monomer.
A PLASTIC IS A POLYMER. BUT A POLYMER IS NOT A PLASTIC.
Source: wikipedia
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