Thursday, January 13, 2011

Surface Chemial Make-up

What are the chemicals and their structures that make up cardboard? Cardboard is not a chemical compound and does not have a chemical formula as such, because it is a mixture. its primary chemical constituent is cellulose, which is also a mixture of polymers of varying molecular weight but the generic formula -(CHOH)n where n indicakes an unknown number of repeating units and terminating groups are not specified.

What are the chemicals and their structures that make up styrofoam? Styrofoam is made up of polystyrene, which is a long polymer chain. It is a hydrocarbon chain with every other carbon connected to a Phenyl group.

What are the chemicals and their structures that make up waxes? T
here are many different types of waxes, but they are mostly made up of hydrocarbons. They are usually very long chains.

Explain why water is attracted to carboard and not styrofoam? Water is attracted to the carboard and they styrofoam because of their abilities to bond. The hydroelectricity hydrogen is low while oxygen is much higher, therefore they bond. On the other hand, styrofoam's carbon and hydrogen are too close on the hydroelectricity are too bond with anything else (the water).

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