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Write the names and structures of the monomers of the following polymer units:

(i) Nylon-6


(ii) Novolac


(iii) Buna-S


(i) Nylon-6 is made up from the monomer unit named caprolactam.its structure is


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(ii) Novolac is a polymer unit of o-hydroxybenzyalcohol. Its structure is :



(iii) Buna-S is a polymer of two monomeric units styrene and 1,3-butadiene.their structures are as follow:



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