Design and Technology GCSE
Thermoforming Polymer
What Thermoforming Polymer means in Design and Technology GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definitions of Thermoforming Polymer
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A polymer with no permanent cross-links between chains, allowing it to be repeatedly softened by heat and reshaped.
A polymer that softens when heated and can be reshaped repeatedly without undergoing a chemical change.
A polymer that softens when heated and can be reshaped. The process is reversible.
Topics that use Thermoforming Polymer
- Polymers: Stock forms, types and sizes in order to calculate and determine the quantity of thermoforming and thermosetting polymers required (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Polymers: The sources, origins, physical and working properties of thermoforming and thermosetting polymers and their social and ecological footprint (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- The categorisation of the types, properties and structure of thermoforming and thermosetting polymers (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Thermosetting Polymer
- Toughness
- Ecological Footprint
- Kerf
- Stock Form
- Biopol
- Cross-linked Network
- Cross-linking
Using Thermoforming Polymer in the exam
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