Polymer

2. It containing chemical bonds are called cross-linked polymers.
3. The process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects.
7. A white crystalline compound made by heating cyanamide and used in making plastics.
9. A polymer composed of monomers all of the same type
10. The treatment of natural rubber with sulfur, which remains the most common practice.
13. The first plastic made from synthetic components.
15. The main component of natural rubber.
16. The first successful synthetic rubber.

1. plastics that can be decomposed by the action of living organisms, usually microbes, into water, carbon dioxide, and biomass.
4. A process of reacting monomer molecules together in a chemical reaction to form polymer chains or three-dimensional networks.
5. A plastic polymer material that becomes pliable or moldable at a certain elevated temperature and solidifies upon cooling.
6. a polymer that is irreversibly hardened by curing from a soft solid or viscous liquid prepolymer or resin.
8. A polymer derived from more than one species of monomer.
11. The first commercially successful synthetic thermoplastic polymer.
12. A substance added to a synthetic resin to produce or promote plasticity and flexibility and to reduce brittleness.
14. A synthetic fluoropolymer of tetrafluoroethylene that has numerous applications.