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What type of bonding is primarily responsible for the formation of polymers?

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MCQ

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practice

Style

Topic

Chemical bonds, ionic, covalent and metallic

Question

Covalent bonding

Polymers are formed through covalent bonding, where atoms share pairs of electrons.

Misunderstanding Polymer Size

Students often think that all covalent substances are small molecules and do not recognize that some can form very large structures like polymers.

Emphasize that polymers are large molecules made of repeating units, and practice identifying examples of both small molecules and polymers.

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