Name : Eghan Kojo

Index N o : 6138811
Experiment N 0 : O 2.2.3
Graduate Assistant :
Emmanuel Kwakye Boateng
Date : 5 t h March, 2013
POST LABORATORY QUESTIONS
1. What is a polymer?
A polymer is any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds of usually high molecular
weight consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units, each a relatively light and simple
molecule.

2. Give the name of the polymer formed by the procedure described above.
Urea resin

3. Give the balanced equation for the polymer formed

4. Give three uses of a polymer

Polyethene in shopping bags and containers
Polyvinylchloride in waste pipes, electric wiring pipes.
Polyvinylacetate in plastic bottles, in utensils

5. Give five materials that could be used as monomers and give the corresponding names of the polymers
they may form
Monomers
vinyl chloride
ethylene
ethylene glycol and dimethyl terephthalate
styrene
propylene

Polymers
Polyvinyl chloride
Polyethylene
Polyethylene terephthalate
Polystyrene
Polypropylene