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Give three advantages of polythene over natural materials.


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Advantages of polyethene:

  1. Polyethene is also known as polyethene is a polymerized product of ethylene with general formula as [CH2-CH2]
  2. Polyethene has excellent electrical insulating properties. so they are used for making wire and cable insulators.
  3. Polyethene has good resistance to acids. So acids are kept in polyethene bottles.
  4. Polyethene is highly flexible, so they are used as packaging material.

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