Which consequence results when thermal decomposition severs polymer chains?

💡 Explanation

Severing polymer chains decreases chain entanglement; therefore, reduced tensile strength occurs via chain slippage, rather than oxidation, glass transition increase, or further cross-linking because decomposition breaks, not forms, such bonds.

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