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These are plastics which are softening while temperature increases.

Such property makes forming of end products easy.

Examples are:

Polyethylene, Polypropylene, Polystyrene, Polytetrafluoroethylene also known as Teflon, Polyvinyl chloride (PCV) to name few popular.

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