Question

what are the origin of plastic? i want 10 points

Answer 1

Sources of Plastics

The main source of synthetic plastics is crude oil. 

Coal and natural gas are also used to produce plastics.

Petrol, paraffin, lubricating oils and high petroleum gases are bi-products, produced during the refining of crude oil.

These gases are broken down into monomers. Monomers are chemical substances consisting of a single molecule.

A process called Polymerisation occurs when thousands of monomers are linked together. The compounds formed as called polymers.

Combining the element carbon with one or more other elements such as oxygen, hydrogen, chlorine, fluorine and nitrogen makes most polymers.