| Plastics vs polymers
Plastics are based carbon materials. Also, we call them polymers in regard of their constituting molecules.
A polymer is a long molecular chain
made of smaller identical molecules. We call also these smaller molecules
"isomer".
For example, the ethylen is an
isomer and the polyethylen is a polymer. So, the polyethylen is a long based
carbon molecule constituted of ethylen molecules.
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