Design and Technology GCSE
Thermosetting Polymer
What Thermosetting Polymer means in Design and Technology GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definitions of Thermosetting Polymer
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A polymer that undergoes a chemical change during manufacture, creating permanent cross-links that prevent it from being softened or reshaped by heat.
A polymer that undergoes a permanent chemical change when heated or mixed with a catalyst, forming rigid cross-links. It cannot be re-melted.
A polymer that undergoes a chemical change (curing) when heated or mixed with a catalyst, hardening permanently.
A polymer that undergoes a permanent chemical change when heated and moulded. It cannot be remelted or reshaped.
A polymer that undergoes a permanent chemical change when heated and set. It cannot be reshaped.
Topics that use Thermosetting Polymer
- Polymers: Alternative processes that can be used to manufacture polymer products to different scales of production (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Polymers: Specialist techniques, tools, equipment and processes to shape, fabricate, construct and assemble a high-quality polymer prototype (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- 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)
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