Some important polymers

Having covered the general classification schemes, this section surveys the individual polymers of greatest commercial and everyday importance -- natural rubber and its vulcanization, the two forms of polythene, teflon, polyacrylonitrile, the important polyamide and polyester fibres (nylons, terylene, PET), the phenol-formaldehyde and melamine-formaldehyde resins, the synthetic rubbers Buna-S and neoprene, and the semisynthetic fibre viscose rayon -- giving ea …