Science Daily : Articles on Plastics and Polymers
The two articles were posted to Mastodon.
Firstly a look at the problem of Micro-plastics
Secondly an article on Polymers
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Organic Chemistry 4 : Plastics
Moving on lets have a look at:-
I have built this using Molymods in the video below, Just imagine that the rest of the white atoms (hydrogen from previous video) are in fact green, Chlorine atoms.
You may find Molview helpful for visualising molecules on your computer screen too. This could complement physical building which I find can help understanding further.
I will post a few more videos showing the other molecules in that section of the infographic.
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**Note: ** Polytetrafluoroethylene. It appears that Polytetrafluroethylene and Polytetrafluroethene are the same molecule, with different spellings depending on if you're using US or GB English.
Organic Chemistry 3 Plastics
Following on from organic-chemistry-2 we have had a look at Alcohols. So will now turn some attention to plastics.
So again we can construct models of plastics in a similar way, the main difference here is that plastics are POLYMERS, which are MONOMERS chained together.
Mono – Single Poly – Multiple
So looking at the above you will notice that they are using n to indicate there is more than 1 in the chain.
So starting with ${C2H2}$ or Ethene, this becomes Polyethene when more monomers are added to the chain.
So in the video below, I construct Ethene and then, in the spirit of Blue Peter, I am then using a few more I made earlier.
You may find Molview helpful for visualising molecules on your computer screen too. This could complement physical building which I find can help understanding further.
I will post a few more videos showing the other molecules in that section of the infographic.
#chemistry,#organic,#compoundchemistry,#modeling,#molymod, #education,#plastics,#polyethene,#ethene,#monomer,#polymer