Use of plastics in everyday life
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Use of plastics in everyday life and problems associated with its use described.
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Plastics: Use and Hazards
Introduction:
Plastics, materials made up of large, organic (carbon-containing) molecules that can be formed into a variety of products. The molecules that compose plastics are long carbon chains that give plastics many of their useful properties. In general, materials that are made up of long, chainlike molecules are called polymers. The word plastic is derived from the words plasticus (Latin for "capable of molding") and plastikos (Greek "to mold," or "fit for molding"). Plastics can be made hard as stone, strong as steel, transparent as glass, light as wood, and elastic as rubber. Plastics are also lightweight, waterproof, chemical resistant, and produced in almost any color. More than 50 families of plastics have been produced, and new types are currently under development.
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In Every Day Life:
In everyday life plastics are used in several different ways. It is perhaps under this heading that some of the most surprising uses for plastics are found. We know that bottles, shower heads, dishes, skylights, eye glasses, cameras, floor waxes, carpets, piano keys, switch cover plates, buttons, door knobs, papers, shoe heels, toothbrush handles, pen and pencil barrels, beads, toys, fisherperson's floats and tackle, cutlery handles, combs, washing machines, detergent dispensers, salad bowls, ash trays, croquet balls, water hose nozzles, football helmets, inks, clothing, rainwear, cellophane, wash tubs, luggage, costume jewelry, beverage cases, ...
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