What Are The Most Useful Polymers In Our Daily Life?

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What are polymers?

• The matter is made up of molecules that can be of normal size or giant molecules called polymers. Polymers are produced by the union of hundreds of thousands of small molecules called monomers that form huge chains of the most diverse forms. Some seem noodles, others have ramifications. some more resemble ladders and others are like three-dimensional networks.
• The starch, the cellulose, the silk are examples of natural polymers, among the most common of these and the synthetic polymers are the nylon, the polythene, and Bakelite, just like thermoplastic polymers.
• The polymers are defined as macromolecules made up of one or more chemical units (monomers) that are repeated throughout a chain.
• A polymer is as if we united with a thread many coins pierced by the center, in the end, we get a chain of coins, where the coins would be the monomers and the chain with the coins would be the Polymer manufacturing.
• The basic part of a polymer is the monomers, the monomers are the chemical units that are repeated throughout the entire chain of a polymer, for example, the polyethylene monomer is ethylene, which is repeated x times along The whole chain.
• PVC: is the product of the polymerization of the vinyl chloride monomer to vinyl polychloride. The resin that results from this polymerization is the most versatile in the plastics family; as well as being thermoplastic; from it you can obtain rigid and flexible products. From polymerization processes, compounds in the form of powder or pellet, plastisols, solutions, and emulsions are obtained. In addition to its great versatility, PVC is the most complex and difficult to formulate and process synthetic resin, since it requires a significant number of ingredients and an adequate balance of these to be able to transform it to the desired final product.

  

Styrene: aromatic hydrocarbon derived from benzene, which is found in certain essential oils of coal tar. It is an aromatic and colorless liquid, soluble in alcohol and ether. It has great industrial importance since it has resulted in the preparation of a synthetic resin, polystyrene. 

Politano: Polythene (or polyethylene) is one of the best-known plastics. It is used to make many everyday items, such as glasses, buckets, sachets, etc. Now it is used to build water pipes, with the advantage that it is light and easy to handle. As it is acid resistant and unbreakable, polythene bottles are very useful for storing chemicals. 

Orl: Orlón is a common component of the point, as a substitute for wool. 

Teflon: Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is a polymer similar to polyethylene, where hydrogen atoms are substituted by fluorine. One of the first uses of this material was in the Manhattan Project as a coating of valves and as a sealant in tubes containing uranium hexafluoride (highly radioactive material). 

Acrylic: Acrylic was one of the chemicals used by Carothers and his team in the fundamental research on high polymers that was carried out in the company Du Pont. Du Pont developed an acrylic fiber in 1944 and began its commercial production in 1950. It was given the trade name of Orlón. 

Silicone: Silicone is a colorless and odorless polymer made primarily of silicon. Silicone is inert and stable at high temperatures, which makes it useful in a wide variety of industrial applications, such as lubricants, adhesives, waterproofing, and in medical applications, such as cardiac valve prostheses and breast implants. 

Resin: The resin is any of the substances of secretion of plants with appearance and properties more or less analogous to those of the products so named. Latin resin. It is possible to consider as resin the substances that undergo a polymerization or drying process giving rise to solid products being first liquid.

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