The Development of Plastics
Overview
At the beginning of the twentieth century manufacturers made consumer goods and electrical insulation from natural materials like shellac, rubber, cellulose, and c...
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Plastic (from the Greek plassein, meaning to mold or shape a soft substance) was originally invented as a substitute for natural resources; by the end of the twentieth century, however, it had...
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The word "plastic" was originally an adjective describing a material that could flow. Its first use as a noun came with the introduction of Bakelite and Celluloid in the early 1900s. The word...
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Plastics are a type of polymer characterized by the fact that they can be molded with heat. Thermoset polymers are extremely rigid and once molded and hardened cannot be remelted. Thermoplast...
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The term plastic refers to any material that can be shaped or molded. In this sense, ordinary clay or a soft wax is a plastic material. Perhaps more commonly, plastic has become the term us...
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Plastics
Technologies have world-shaping powers. They have fundamentally changed ways of thinking as much as they influenced social practices. Plastics form a striking case.
Human beings are surrounde...
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Plastics are a subspecies of a class of materials known as polymers. These are composed of large molecules, formed by joining many, often thousands, of smaller molecules (monomers) together. O...
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Throughout our daily lives, there is a substance used countless times, so many times in fact, that we may not even realize its importance. So what is this material, you may be asking yourself? Cement...
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