Chemical engineering project

Question

What are some household items that can be used to create plastic polymers? I have this project for school that assigns me to create a polymer made from a chemical reaction but I'm stuck on ideas and would greatly appreciate some help. Thank you.

Answer 1

Do a search for “homemade polymer clay” and ”hits” on this. The ingredients usually consist of the following:

cup white glue

cup cornstarch

tablespoons mineral oil

tablespoon lemon juice

Good luck.

Answer 2

Take olive oil, and spread it on a piece of glass and heat it in the oven at 400F for an hour or two until it is dry.. You will have a polymer film where the oil was. Look up "olive oil", and "drying oil" online and explain for your assignment what happened when you heated the olive oil. Olive oil used to be the oil used for making paint for art centuries ago.