What are the properties and uses of plastic?
- What are the properties and uses of plastic?
Plastics are generally low cost, easy to manufacture, durable, strong for their weight, electrically and thermally insulative, and resistant to shock, corrosion, chemicals, and water.
- Why do plastics have different properties?
Because of the structure of the molecules, polymeric materials have different properties compared to other materials, like metals. Specifically, the relatively high molecular weight and long polymer chain length result in entanglement, and the lack of covalent intermolecular bonds facilitates polymer chain mobility.