10) Plastics are polymers

True

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False

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Solution

The correct option is A True
Plastics are known as polyethylene. High-density polyethylene is formed by straight-chain ethylene molecules and Low-density polyethylene molecules are formed when a straight ethylene chain has side branches.
Plastics are made up of long chains of ethylene molecule (monomer units), hence they are polymers of ethylene molecule.
Hence the given statement is ‘True’

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