Resins vs. Polymers vs. Acrylics

[HondaMan]

What are they? Is it just chemical techno-babble?

I have various LSP's and one is a resin (EX-P), one is a polymer (UPP), and another is an acrylic (Klasse).

Are there textural differences among the three? Molecular differences? Bonding differences? Strength (protection) differences?

Any chemists here ?? lol

 

[Larry A]

Id like to hear that answer too.

 

[pogo123]

What are they? Is it just chemical techno-babble?

I have various LSP's and one is a resin (EX-P), one is a polymer (UPP), and another is an acrylic (Klasse).

Are there textural differences among the three? Molecular differences? Bonding differences? Strength (protection) differences?

Any chemists here ?? lol

Well I'm not a chemist by any means but I think they are all similar, if not the exact same thing. This is what I got from a Google search:

An acrylic is a resin resulting from the polymerization of derivatives of acrylic acids, including esters of acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, acrylonitrile, and their copolymers. Acrylics are also used in powder coatings in their thermoplastic form.

A polymer is a natural or man-made material formed by combining units, called monomers, into long chains. The word polymer means many parts. Examples of polymers are starch (which has many sugar units), polyethylene (which has many ethylene units) and polystyrene (which has many styrene units).

A resin is any of a class of solid or semi-solid organic products of natural or synthetic origin, generally of high molecular weights with no definite melting point. Most resins are polymers

 

[hook]

if I remember my college chemistry correctly, acrylic is a specifc polymer, but not all polymers are acrylic. Resins are another class, and can be polymers. IIRC, carnauba is a polymer.

But I've always wondered if Klasse is the only acrylic...(besides Nu-Finish )

Andrew