Handbook of Polyethylene: Structures
Subtitle: Properties, and Applications (Plastics Engineering (Marcel Dekker, Inc.), 57.)
Publisher: CRC
Published: January 20, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780824795467
Subjects: Plastics & polymers technology; Technology; Plastics Engineering; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; Chemistry - General; Engineering - Chemical & Biochemical; Material Science; Technology / Textiles & Polymers; Polyethylene
First sentence: In its simplest form a polyethylene molecule consists of a long backbone of an even number of covalently linked carbon atoms with a pair of hydrogen atoms attached to each carbon; chain ends are terminated by methyl groups.