What is the atomic structure of Polyethylene?

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Xik
Jun 15, 2016

It's not an atom, it's a polymer (long chain molecule).

Explanation:

Polyethylene is another name for polyethene, which is a chain made of ethene molecules joined together. When they polymerise they will lose their double bond, so it is in fact just a long chain of Carbon atoms joined together by single bonds, with the remaining 2 bonds of each carbon joining to Hydrogen atoms.

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