Polymers

A chain of repeating units (called monomers)

• monomer

• dimer

• replicate

• polymer

What is the process to make long polymer (plastic) chains?

• Fractional Distillation

• Curing

• Fracking

• Polymerisation

What kind of chemical bonds create polymers?

• ionic

• covalent

• hydrogen

• metallic

What is Polyethene made from?

• Ethene

• Ethane

• Propane

• Propene

What is addition polymerization?

• When monomers are added together to form a polymer

• When polymers link with eachother to form megapolymers

• When a polymer is heated and bonds between monomers break

• When a polymer does things polymers do

Which one of these could polymerise to make poly(propene)

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What monomer forms this polymer chain?

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Which general structure is/are the best example(s) of a section of a copolymer?

• -A-A-A-A-A-A-

• -A-B-A-B-A-B-A-B-

• -B-B-B-B-B-B-

• -A-B-C-A-B-C-A-B-C-

What would the polymer formed from ethene monomers be called?

• polyethene

• poly(ethene)

• poly(propene)

• polyene

Polymerisation in which double bonds in monomers break and a polymer with single bonds only is called...