# The Polymer Age

Produced by the BBC for the British Open University

A detailed study of two of the most successful synthetic rubbers, styrene butadiene random copolymer, which is used extensively in tire manufacture, and styrene butadiene styrene block copolymer. Includes a review of the two modes of polymerization, chain growth and step growth, and illustrates them with two examples, the synthesis of polyethene and nylon 6-6. From the Organic Chemistry series

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1980
- Runtime: 26 min
- By: Open University, British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service, Media Guild
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/thepolymerage)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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