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ABSTRACT
Nowadays, material science developed rapidly. One of
material that developing is polymer. Polymer is a material which
has wide applications. Because of that, an understanding about
polymer and its characteristics are needed. What was discussed
now is thermoplastic polymer and thermoset polymer.
Thermoplastic polymer is a polymer that easily melt if exposed to
heat, while thermoset polymer can not melt if exposed to heat.
This experiment use 2 different type of polymer, the first polymer
made of resine and 4, 5, and 6 drops of hardener and the second
polymer is PVC. Both of polymer types is heated and observed the
change that occurs. The first polymer experienced change of
color to browny after heated for 30 minutes at 75oC temperature.
The second polymer experienced change of phase because melt
after heated for almost one minute at 36oC temperature. From the
result, it can be concluded that the first polymer is a thermoset
polymer and the second polymer is a thermoplastic polymer.
Keywords: polymer, thermoplastic, thermoset