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Polymer backbone — Edexcel GCSE Chemistry Definition | GradeGen

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GCSE Chemistry · key term

Polymer backbone

Definition

The continuous chain of bonded atoms running through a polymer molecule; in the addition polymers considered here, it is a carbon chain.

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Edexcel GCSE Chemistry · 1CH0

Specification 9.20C · Paper 2

Revise: Monomer and Polymer Structures

Edexcel Chemistry past papers

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