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Describe the form of a polymer. Why is this shape beneficial to creating plastics?

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The four basic polymer structures are linear, branched, crosslinked, and networked.Plastics are polymers. A polymer is a substance made of many repeating units. The word polymer comes from two Greek words: poly, meaning many, and meros, meaning parts or units. A polymer can be thought of as a chain in which each link is the “mer,” or monomer (single unit).

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