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The document discusses thermoplastics, thermosetting substances, and elastomers. Thermoplastics become moldable when heated and harden when cooled, allowing reshaping. Thermosetting substances harden irreversibly after heating. Elastomers are polymers with elasticity maintained above their glass transition temperature through molecular reconformation without breaking bonds.

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The document discusses thermoplastics, thermosetting substances, and elastomers. Thermoplastics become moldable when heated and harden when cooled, allowing reshaping. Thermosetting substances harden irreversibly after heating. Elastomers are polymers with elasticity maintained above their glass transition temperature through molecular reconformation without breaking bonds.

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A thermoplastic, or thermosoftening plastic, is a Thermoplastics may be reshaped and are typically used to

plastic polymer material that becomes pliable or produce parts by various polymer processing techniques such
moldable at a certain elevated temperature and as injection molding, compression molding, calendering, and
solidifies upon cooling. extrusion

Thermosetting substances can be melted and A polymer-based liquid or powder that becomes solid
formed into shapes that become hard and cannot when heated, placed under pressure, treated with a
be melted again. chemical or via radiation.

An elastomer is a polymer with viscoelasticity (i.e., Elastomers are amorphous polymers maintained above
both viscosity and elasticity) and very weak their glass transition temperature, so that considerable
intermolecular forces, and generally low Young's molecular reconformation, without breaking of covalent
modulus and high failure strain compared with bonds.
other materials.

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