Differentiate between Polymers and Plastics? Give some examples?

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Differentiate between Polymers and Plastics? Give some examples?

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The word polymer is the combination of two units : 'poly' and 'mers' where 'poly' means many and 'mers' means units. Thus,polymer is a substance resulting from the combination of several repeating units.The repeating unit is known as monomer and the process is known as polymerization.

A substance is said to be plastic if it can be moulded into any shape and can be folded easily.

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