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How to polymers work? ​

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The first man-made polymers were actually modified versions of these natural polymers. Celluloid, the stuff from which silent-movie film was made, was a plastic created from chemically modified cellulose. The first completely synthetic polymer (that is, made by people through chemical synthesis), invented in the early years of the twentieth century, was Bakelite: a plastic made by reacting phenol and formaldehyde under pressure at high temperatures.

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A polymer is any of a class of natural or synthetic substances composed of very large molecules, called macromolecules, which are multiples of simpler chemical units. Polymers make up many of the materials in living organisms and are the basis of many minerals.

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