JEE Main 2016 Chemistry question

ChemistryPolymersJEE Main 2016

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Which of the following polymers is synthesized using a free radical polymerization technique?

Answer: (4)

Solution

Free-radical polymerisation is an **addition** process, available only to monomers containing a carbon-carbon double bond. Teflon is made by polymerising tetrafluoroethene, , in the presence of a persulphate or peroxide initiator at high pressure — a textbook radical chain reaction — so it is

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