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The first synthetic plastic?


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  1. Synthetic polymers are the type of plastic that is made up of long chains of atoms that are arranged in repeating units, often much longer than those found in nature.
  2. Bakelite is said to be the first synthetic plastic. Bakelite was invented by a scientist named Leo Hendrik Baekeland.

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