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By which process synthetic polymers are made?

Synthetic polymers are made by the process of polymerisation. Polymerisation is the process in which individual molecules (which are called monomers) join to form a bigger molecule (called polymer). In other words, the polymer is made up of repeating units of monomers.


If a single red circle denotes a monomer, then polymerisation can be illustrated as:



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