If a polymer is made of ten monomers, how many water molecules will be needed to break all the bonds? Why?
1 Answer
Aug 30, 2015
nine assuming you are breaking only the bonds where the water molecule is released when the bonds are formed.
Explanation:
lets break the problem like this. Following is a diagrammatic representation of 10 monomer polymer
here each polymer bond is shown as "
polymer bond is formed when
now to separate the two monomer you require only one water molecule.
for three monomer polymer we have 2 bonds so we require two water molecules. now for 10 monomer polymer we have 9 polymer bonds so we require 9 water molecules.