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Grade 8Organic Chemistry

Explain why thermo setting plastics don't burn ?and define it

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4 Years agoGrade 8
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4 Years ago
Thermosetting plastics are chain growth polymers which irreversibly becomes more rigid when heated . The don't burn becz heating provides more energy to them for undergoing chemical rxns that increase cross linkages among them and hence protects plastic .