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Thermoplastics have crosslinking of monomers.

(a) True

(b) False

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I need to ask this question from Optical, Mechanical Properties of Thermoplastic Polymers in chapter Thermoplastic Polymers Properties & Processing of Food Packaging Technology

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Right option is (b) False

To explain I would say: The statement is false. Thermoplastics do not have crosslinking of monomers. Because of the absence of this chemical reaction, the processing cycles are comparatively short. Thermoplastics are made by linear chain polymerization of monomers.

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