The
monomer of polyvinyl chloride is - so don't say you never learnt anything from the internet - vinyl chloride. This has a
molecular formula of C
2H
3Cl, and is more correctly called chloroethene.
It looks like this:
Cl H
\ /
C = C
/ \
H H
PVC, its addition
polymer, consists of
macromolecules which are simply long chains of chloroethene:
Cl H Cl H Cl H
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- - - C - C - C - C - C - C - - -(with thousands of repeats)
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H H H H H H