chapter 3 Synthetic Fibres and Plastics #Class_8_Science_mission A. Short answer type questions 1. Name a fibre that: (a) burns with a flame giving out smell like that of burning paper. (b) burns with a flame emitting smell of burning hair. (c) burns with a sooty flame leaving behind a black beady mass. Ans: a. cotton b. wool c. nylon 2. How thermoset is different from thermoplastic? Ans: Thermoset Plastics are hard and rigid. Example is Teflon, Bakelite and melamine. Thermoset plastic can be moulded to any shape only once and cannot be remoulded. Thermoplastics are soft and flexible though they are not elastic like rubber. 3. Why are plastics called polymers? Plastics are called polymers as they are made up of many small units which joined together. A substance having a single unit (molecule) structure is called a monomer (mono means single; mer means a u...