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An Introduction to Polymer Engineering
An Introduction to Polymer Engineering
  • Mostafa Radwan
  • Hany A. Elazab, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Abstract

Chemically, polymers are long chain molecules of very high molecular weight, often measured in hundreds of thousands. For this reason, the term macromolecules are frequently used when referring to polymeric materials. Any polymer sample consists of many chains of different lenghths. A polymer should constitute of a large number of simple repeated building units called monomers, the number of which is termed as degree of polymerization the first polymer used were natural products, specialty cotton, starch, protein and wool. Beginning in the twentieth century systemic polymers were made as Bakelite and nylon showed that tremendous possibilities of the new material.

Department(s)
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
978-613-9-45162-3
Document Type
Book
Document Version
Final Version
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2023 Lambert Academic PUblishing, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
3-7-2019
Publication Date
2023-03-07
Disciplines
Citation Information
Mostafa Radwan and Hany A. Elazab. An Introduction to Polymer Engineering. An Introduction to Polymer Engineering (2019)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/hany-elazab/11/