Characteristics of plastics

1. Light :- It is light in weight.


2. Chemicaly inactive :- Water, moisture and air can't corrode plastics. Even it is not affected by various acids and other chemicals.


3. Insulator :- Plastics are good insulator and bad conductor of both heat and electricity.


4. Polymer :- Plastics are synthetic polymer.Plastics are long chain of repeated small organic molecules.


5. Transparency :- A plastics comes transparecy rangees from a transparent object to an opaque object.


6. Color :- Plastics are milky-white in color. various color pigments are used to give desirable color to plastics.


7. Burning :- Plastics are long chain of carbon molecules. Upon burning they release toxic gase like carbon-monoxide(CO), Hydrogen chloride gas(HCl), Hydrogen Cynide gas(HCN)


8. Mouldability :- Applying heat and pressure plastics can be mould to any shape.


9. Melting points :- Most of the thermoplastics melts between 150 to 300 degree centigrade temperature.


10. Non-biodegradable :- Plastics are not decompose by weather and bacteria in the environment.


11. Greenhouse property:- Plastics containers trap short wavelength light. This property is used to control temperature in farming.


12. Thermosoftening plastics (Thermoplastic) are usually soft while thermosetting plastics are hard.