Assertion: Polyamides are best used as fibres because of high tensile
strength.
Reason: Strong intermolecular forces (like hydrogen bonding within
polyamides) lead to close packing of chains and increase the
crystalline character, hence, provide high tensile strength to
polymers.
(i) Assertion and reason both are correct statements but reason does not
explain the assertion.
(ii) Assertion and reason both are correct statements and reason explain the
assertion.
(iii) Both assertion and reason are the wrong statements.
(iv) The assertion is correct statement and reason is the wrong statement.
(v) The assertion is the wrong statement and reason is the correct statement.
Option (ii) Assertion and reason both are correct statements and reason explain the
assertion. is correct
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