Addition Polymerisation

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What is a polymer?

• a very light material that is highly flammable

• a fossil fuel

• a large molecule made from many monomers joined together

• a molecule made up of only polar bonds

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What type of a bond keeps polymer chains together?

• James Bond

• Polar bond

• Ionic bond

• Covalent bond

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What is Polyethene made from?

• Ethene

• Ethane

• Propane

• Propene

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What does polymer ("poly", "mer") mean?

• plastic chain

• many parts

• large molecule

• very useful

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Which one of these is a polymer?

• carbon dioxide

• methane

• polyvinylchloride

• deoxyribonucleic acid

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What is addition polymerization?

• When monomers are added together to form a polymer

• When polymers link with eachother to form megapolymers

• When a polymer is heated and bonds between monomers break

• When a polymer does things polymers do

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A chain of repeating units (called monomers) is called ____________.

• monomer

• dimer

• replicate

• polymer

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A polymer that is usually made by living things is called ____________.

• nature polymer

• natural polymer

• protein

• synthetic polymer

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What is the partial structure of the polymer formed by the polymerisation of propene, CH₃CH=CH₂?

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What is the name given to the small molecules that join together to make a polymer

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Polymerisation in which double bonds in monomers break and a polymer with single bonds only is called...

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What would the polymer formed from ethene monomers be called?

• polyethene

• poly(ethene)

• poly(propene)

• polyene

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Which one of these could polymerise to make poly(propene)

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What are the key points to remember when writing an equation for polymerisation?

• Monomer has a C=C

• Repeat Unit has C-C

• Brackets (with stalks)

• n before monomer and after bracket of repeat unit

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Which repeat unit would be formed by the polymerisation of propene?

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True of false - this is the repeat unit for poly(propene)?

• True

• False

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What monomer forms this polymer chain?

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What monomer forms this polymer chain?