Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
Polymers and Monomers
34
Polymers are used frequently in daily life.
Synthetic polymers may be even more common.
What is the most common polymer composite that we use in daily life?
Diapers in the Past
How do Monomers form Polymers?
Diapers Today
Pros of Synthetic Polymers vs. Natural Polymers
Pros/Cons of Synthetic Polymers vs. Natural Polymers
How did monomers and polymers get their name?
Common Polymers
Some frequent uses of synthetic polymers are in plastics, CDs, superglue, film, and food wrap.
Some well-known examples of natural polymers are amber, wool, silk, starch, DNA, and cellulose.
The most common polymers that we use everyday are plastic materials and diapers. Americans alone use 70 million water bottles in a day.
Pros of Synthetic Polymers: Synthetic plastics are cheap, easy to manufacture, lightweight, and recyclable.
Diapers first consisted of animal skins, moss, linens, and leaves. These are natural polymers.
Diapers have evolved from the materials being natural polymers to synthetic polymers. Diapers are now made up of well-known synthetic polymers such as plastic materials and water absorbing crystals.
Cons of Synthetic Polymers: Synthetic polymers are non-biodegradable and can be toxic. For example, a single plastic bag can take up to 500 years to break down!
Next time you use find yourself using wool, silk, starch, plastics, CDs, or food wrap remember that polymers are more common than you may think.
The names of monomers and polymers came from familiar prefixes. The root of mono means one and the root of poly means many.
Silk
Wool
DNA
What is a Monomer?
Monomers are small, simple molecules that bond together to form a polymer.
What is a difference between monomers and polymers?
What are Polymers?
In a monomer, the molecules that are bonded together are identical where as in a polymer the molecules can be different.
A polymer is a group of molecules
strung together to form long chains
and complex structures.