Question

Assertion: For making rubber synthetically, isoprene molecules are polymerised.

Reason: Neoprene (a polymer of chloroprene) is a synthetic rubber.

Options

• Assertion and reason both are correct statement but reason does not explain assertion.

• Assertion and reason both are correct statements and reason explains the assertion.

• Both assertion and reason are wrong statement.

• Assertion is correct statement and reason is wrong statement.

• Assertion is wrong statement and reason is correct statement.

Answer 1

Assertion is wrong statement and reason is correct statement.

Explanation:

Isoprene molecule is the monomer for natural rubber, while neoprene a synthetic rubber is formed by polymerisation of chloroprene.