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What, in your opinion, is the semantic difference between the words plastic and polymer?
What is your word of choice to distinguish between naturally occurring and lab-made polymers?
It depends on the context. Sometimes plastic is good for that, but in this case I don't believe that it is.
Plastic is not a rigorous term. When discussing specific plastics it's petty much always better to describe specifics, because plastics are too diverse of chemistry to do anything else.