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Why polyetylene cannot be stretched?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

The polyethylene that can't be stretched, the ultra-high-molecular-weight PE they make hockey rink edges out of, is too stiff to be stretched. The PE they make plastic bags out of stretches fairly easily.

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