Which risk increases for a polymer when molecular chains untangle?

💡 Explanation

Reduced tensile strength occurs because molecular chain entanglement contributes directly to a polymer's resistance to deformation through a mechanism called chain friction. Therefore, disentanglement weakens the material rather than changing stability; rather than lowering activation energies.

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