Why plastic in known as polymer ?

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Plastics are synthetic chemicals extracted mainly from petroleum and composed of hydrocarbons (compounds made from chains of hydrogen and carbon atoms).
Plastics are polymers a large number of molecules of ethylene can be joined end to end into a familiar polymer called polyethylene (or polythene).

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