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Is polyesters thermoplastic

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8y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

Polyesters are a group of organic polymers that contain the ester functional group in their main chain. Polyesters can be either thermoplastic or thermoset, depending on the rest of their structure, but the most common polyesters are thermoplastic.

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