plastic
In today’s society life without plastic is nearly impossible, we depend on it for our basic needs. ... Natural plastic have been used for thousands of years throughout the world. ... Alexander Parkes was the inventor of the first man made plastic. ... He added camphor to nitrate cellulose and formed a modified natural plastic called celluloid. It was extremely fragile and had little success in its original purpose but became the basis of the early plastic industry. ... Plastic is made up of large organic molecules that can be formed into a variety of products. ... There are two kinds of polymers, the thermoplastics and thermosets, Also another thing I cannot forget to mention is that although all plastics are polymers, not all polymers are plastic.