Polymers and plastics
Chemistry of the Combustion of Polymers and Fire Retardancy
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Polymers and plastics
Chemistry of the Combustion of Polymers and Fire Retardancy

Authors : Christelle VAGNER, Marianne COCHEZ, Henri VAHABI, Michel FERRIOL

Publication date: July 10, 2016, Review date: October 1, 2020 | Lire en français

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1. Polymers and plastics

1.1 Polymers

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1.1.1 Definition

The concept of polymers, as we understand it today, is due to Hermann Staudinger (winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry), who in the 1920s demonstrated the existence of the macromolecules that make up polymers. Thus, a polymer is a substance composed of macromolecules formed by the repetition of monomer units (groups of atoms) linked by covalent bonds. The number of monomer units contained in a macromolecule is called the degree of polymerization. It can reach values of several...

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