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most plastic bags are made of polyethylene. polyethylene is a kind of polymer, a substance made of hundreds of repeating units called monomers. the prefix poly - in polyethylene means many. so polyethylene is made of many units of ethylene. which model shows polyethylene?
Polyethylene is a polymer, which means it is made of many repeating units (monomers). The first model shows ethylene (a monomer), while the second model shows a chain of repeating ethylene units, which is characteristic of polyethylene.
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The second model shows polyethylene.