1. Figure Number: 28-00CO
Title: Super Glue
Caption: Space-filling model of a small segment of a Super Glue polymer molecule.
Notes: Super Glue starts out as methyl a-cyanoacrylate dissolved in an organic solvent. This substance is very unstable, and when it is exposed to even trace quantities of mild nucleophiles it polymerizes (the reactant molecules covalently bond to one another, generating huge product molecules). This process forms a tough flexible solid called polycyanoacrylate, which bonds together a wide variety of different materials.

2. Figure Number: UN
Title: Polyethylene
Caption: Space-filling models showing three ethylene monomer molecules reacting to form a small piece of a polyethylene molecule.
Notes: Polyethylene molecules are very large, ranging in molecular weight from thousands of amu per molecule for smaller molecules to about 6 million (just under half a million carbons per molecule) for ultrahigh-molecular-weight material.

3. Figure Number: T02
Title: Table 28.2 examples of alkenes that undergo radical polymerization
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4. Figure Number: T03
Title: Table 28.3 some radical initiators
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5. Figure Number: UN
Title: Polymer-Chain Branching
Caption: Schematic diagrams of regions of branched polyethylene with short and long branches.
Notes: Branches in polymer strands keep the strands from stacking together efficiently and keep the resulting plastic soft rather than rigid and brittle.

6. Figure Number: T04
Title: Table 28.3 examples of alkenes that undergo cationic polymerization
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7. Figure Number: T05
Title: Table 28.5 examples of alkenes that undergo anionic polymerization
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8. Figure Number: 28-03
Title: Figure 28.3
Caption: Progress of step-growth polymerization.
Notes: A polymer which undergoes step growth does not have to add monomer molecules sequentially to its ends. Developing polymer molecules can couple and make larger polymer molecules as well.

9. Figure Number: 28-04
Title: Figure 28.4
Caption: A segment of a linear polymer which has folded back on itself several times in two regions (circled) called crystallites.
Notes: Crystalline polymers (polymers with many crystallite regions) are hard, stiff, and brittle, whereas randomly oriented polymers are soft and flexible.

10. Figure Number: 28-05
Title: Figure 28.5
Caption: Creation of an ordered polymer.
Notes: When randomly oriented polymers are melted, extruded (pushed through a narrow opening under pressure), and resolidified, they become more ordered. Ordered polymers are stiffer and stronger than randomly oriented polymers because the chains stack together better, forming strong attractions between neighboring chains. Ordered high-molecular-weight polyethylene is nearly ten times as strong as steel on a weight basis.

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Title: Table Some Important Chain Growth Polymers and Their Uses
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Title: Table Some Examples of Copolymers and Their Uses
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Title: Table Properties of Polyethylene as a Function of Crystallinity
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14. Figure Number: T02
Title: Table 28.2 examples of alkenes that undergo radical polymerization
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15. Figure Number: T03
Title: Table 28.3 some radical initiators
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16. Figure Number: T04
Title: Table 28.3 examples of alkenes that undergo cationic polymerization
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17. Figure Number: T05
Title: Table 28.5 examples of alkenes that undergo anionic polymerization
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