Title: Plastic Fantastic
Pages: 2
Created By: The Science Museaum
Age: 11 - 14
Format: PDF

Description:

This demonstration shows the synthesis of a polymer, nylon, by reacting two chemicals. 

• Nylon is a special type of material known as a polymer.  ‘Poly’ means many, and ‘mer’ means unit, so ‘polymer’ means ‘many units’, i.e. long chains of identical molecules joined together.
• There are many different types of polymers all around us, including man-made polymers, such as plastics.