Polyethene is light and stretchy making it ideal for packaging such as plastic bags, water bottles/food containers and carpets.
Polypropene is a tough polymer but is quite flexible and heat resistant too, this makes it ideal for making things like crates
Polychloroethene is used to make clothes, drainpipes and insulating cables
A blog covering and explaining the Edexcel IGCSE Chemistry specification for the 2016 summer exams. If you are doing just double science, you do not need to learn the stuff for paper two, if you are doing triple you will need to learn all (GOOD LUCK!) I have separated the papers to make files easier to find. Hope it helps :)
Sunday, 15 May 2016
5.18 describe some uses for polymers, including poly(ethene), poly(propene) and poly(chloroethene)
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Paper 1,
paper 2,
section 5,
synthetic polymers
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