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Bakelite
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Bakelite [for its inventor, L. H. Baekeland...balls, pipestems, and umbrella handles. Bakelite is a condensation polymer of formaldehyde...bound three-dimensional network. A Bakelite-type resin can also be formed using...
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Leo Hendrik Baekeland
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Hendrik Baekeland (1863-1944) invented Bakelite, the first plastic to be used widely...synthesize shellac but instead discovered Bakelite, the first successful plastic. Earlier...patented this process in 1909 and formed the Bakelite Corporation the following year to market...
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SIC 3089 Plastics Products, Not Elsewhere Classified
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries
...with thermoset plastics are epoxies and phenol formaldehyde (Bakelite). Epoxies are used to manufacture flooring, protective coatings...adhesives and cements, electrical hardware, and particleboard. Bakelite is formed into electrical parts, pot handles, and various...
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Polymer
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science
...did not dissolve in water or other solvents and that did not conduct an electric current. He named the product Bakelite. Bakelite rapidly became very popular as casing material for a number of household products, such as telephones and electrical...
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plastic
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...However, plastics did not come into modern industrial use until after the production (1909) of Bakelite by the American chemist L. H. Baekeland. Bakelite, made by the polymerization of phenol and formaldehyde, is thermosetting. New uses for plastics...
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SIC 2519 Household Furniture, Not Elsewhere Classified
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries
...had been developed in the late nineteenth century, it was not until 1909, when the American chemist Leo Baekeland developed Bakelite, that plastics gradually began to replace metal for body-shells in industrial applications. Baekeland, along with two...
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Baekeland, Leo Hendrik
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Baekeland, Leo Hendrik (1863–1944) US chemist, b. Belgium. He invented a type of photographic paper, Velox, capable of being developed under artificial light. He also invented the first thermosetting plastic , Bakelite .
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phenol
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...to form salts called phenolates. Phenol is important in industry in the production of certain artificial resins, e.g., Bakelite , and in the synthesis of many drugs, dyes, weed killers, insecticides, and explosives (e.g., picric acid ). It is...
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formaldehyde
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...poisonous, colorless gas with a suffocating odor. Formaldehyde is used in the preparation of dyes, in the production of Bakelite and other plastics and synthetic resins, and for several other purposes. Pure gaseous formaldehyde is uncommon, since it...
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Plastics
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...metals, wood, glass, paper, leather, and vulcanized (sulfurized) natural rubber. The first truly synthetic polymer was Bakelite, a densely cross-linked material based on the reaction of phenol and formaldehyde. It has been used for many applications...
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