Q.Non-stick cookwares generally have a coating of a polymer, whose monomer is :
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →Non-stick cookware is coated with Teflon (polytetrafluoroethylene, PTFE), the addition polymer formed from the monomer tetrafluoroethene (), polymerised under high pressure with a peroxide catalyst.
Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE, trade name Teflon) is prepared by the free-radical addition polymerisation of tetrafluoroethene (also called 1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethylene), , using a peroxide catalyst at high pressure: The resulting polymer is chemically inert, extremely resistant to heat and corrosive chemicals, and has a very low coefficient of friction — which is exactly why it is used as the non-stick coating on cookware. Chloroethene (vinyl chloride, option a) is the monomer o …
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