Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction

Published by Wiley
ISBN 10: 1118324579
ISBN 13: 978-1-11832-457-8

Chapter 1 - Introduction - Questions - Page 18: 1.4

Answer

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Polymers tend to be long organic chains that consist primarily of a carbon backbone with hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen atoms. All of these materials listed have a "monomer" unit, which is the base repeating unit that is repeated to create the long organic chain characteristic of a polymer
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