C14 Polymers

A chain of repeating units (called monomers)

• monomer

• dimer

• replicate

• polymer

A polymer made in the laboratory (or industry) usually made from petrochemicals

• nature polymer

• natural polymer

• protein

• synthetic polymer

What is the process used to separate crude oil to get Naptha oil to make Polymers

• Polymerisation

• Fracking

• Fractional Distillation

• Polymer chain

What is the process to make long polymer (plastic) chains?

• Fractional Distillation

• Curing

• Fracking

• Polymerisation

Proteins are composed of what smaller subunits?

• amino acids
• nucleic acids
• fatty acids
• nucleotides

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NGSS.HS-LS1-6

Starch is composed of what monomers?

• sucrose
• glucose
• nucleic acids
• glycogen

The addition of water is called...

• Halogenation

• Hydrogenation

• Hydration

• Dehydration

What is the definition of a functional group?

• Family of organic molecules with the same functional group

• Gives a family of organic molecules their characteristic reactions

• Compound consisting of just hydrogen and carbon

• The group on the end of a molecule

What happens in a Condensation Polymerisation reaction?

• Two different functional groups bond together and expel a small molecule (often water)

• A small molecule is added

• All atoms used up when monomers join together

Why does plastic harm the environment?

• It is not biodegradable, and will break down eventually

• It is not biodegradable, and will take hundreds of years to break down

• It is biodegradable, and will break down eventually

• It is biodegradable, and will take hundreds of years to break down