Question

1) Describe a simple experiment you could perform to determine if a particular polymer was thermosetting or thermoplastic. Describe the results you would expect for both types of polymer.

2) Customized polymers are polymers designed and produced for a particular task. Give one way in which a customized polymer can be produced.

Answer 1

1) is very very very simple you put a sample in DSC (differential scanning calorimetry) or DMA (dynamical mechanical analysis) and results are very self explainatory
2) also very simple such polymer would be ABS for car bumpers and so forth...

Answer 2

i just remembered for 1) you could try a swelling test where you put piece of polymer and try to dissolve it, thermosetting polymers cant be dissolved (they swell) but thermoplasts can