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Standard XII
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Branched Polymer
What is Polym...
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What is Polymer Cotton?
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Cotton is a polymer of cellulose which naturally occurs.
A long chain of Glucose
C
6
H
12
O
6
makes a polymer cellulose.
Monomer of cotton is made up of two units of glucose.
Cotton are used in making variety of things like clothes, bedsheets, curtains, in first aid and many more.
The structures shown below is the monomer of cotton which is made up of two glucose units.
These two glucose units are bind together by glycosides bond between
C
-
1
and
C
-
4
position.
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