Which constraint causes polymers to degrade in extreme conditions?

💡 Explanation

Extreme conditions cause polymers’ backbones to break via molecular chain scission, weakening and resulting in degradation, because the high energy overcomes bond strength. Therefore, chains break, rather than transition in phase, driven by energetic factors rather than entropic variables.

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