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What does the word 'polymer' mean?
What does the word 'polymer' mean?
- Many single units (correct)
- Single unit of a polymer
- Single unit of a monomer
- Single unit of a synthetic fiber
What are synthetic fibers?
What are synthetic fibers?
- Fibers formed by extruding fiber-forming materials through spinnerets
- Fibers that are naturally occurring in animals and plants
- Fibers made through chemical synthesis by humans (correct)
- Fibers directly derived from living organisms
How are synthetic fibers created?
How are synthetic fibers created?
- By directly deriving from living organisms
- By replicating naturally occurring animal and plant fibers
- By using thermoplastic polymers
- By extruding fiber-forming materials through spinnerets (correct)
When was the first commercially successful synthetic thermoplastic polymer synthesized?
When was the first commercially successful synthetic thermoplastic polymer synthesized?
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Who began the research project for the first commercially successful synthetic thermoplastic polymer?
Who began the research project for the first commercially successful synthetic thermoplastic polymer?
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