1.3: Polyvinylstyrene is one of the most common plastics packaging and shipping materials. (a) Draw the monomer for polystyrene and provide its technical name. (b) What functional groups are present in the monomer from (a)? (c) What types of intermolecular interactions occur between polymer strands in the plastic material? (d) How is the monomer in (a) polymerized? By free-radical addition or condensation polymerization? (e) What are the properties of polystyrene? (f) Considering your answer to (a)-(d), explain the emergence of the properties you listed in (e) from a chemical perspective. Activity 34 - Plastics 31-3