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Plastics
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
PLASTICS PLASTICS. Perhaps the most prevalent manufactured material in society today is plastics. About 200 billion pounds of plastics are produced annually in the world, 90 billion pounds in the United States alone. In the 1967 movie The Graduate...
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Petrochemical Industry
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...detergents, synthetic fabrics, asphalt, and plastics. All of these products — and...oils, and other key military supplies. Plastics: A Petrochemical Gold Mine The demand...the primary reason. Originally, most plastics were made from the resins of plant matter...
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plastic
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...mouldings , pipes, gutters, etc. Plastics in building are of two general types...essential properties). In C20 certain plastics were used to create tensile structures...by Piano and Rogers ), transparent plastics, though tough, can be scratched, and...
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Chemical Industry
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...such as electronic chemicals, and select plastics. The overall employment level of the chemical...dollar value, includes all categories of plastics and man-made fibers. The major markets for plastics are packaging, followed by home construction...
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César
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...Yellow Buick , 1961, MoMA, New York). In 1965 he started working with plastics, and in 1967, as a counterpart to his Compressions , he began making Expansions , using plastics that expand rapidly and quickly solidify; sometimes he made such works...
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Petroleum Industry
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...use. It also provides the raw material for synthetic cloth, plastics, paint, ink, tires, drugs and medicines, and many other...Petrochemicals can be changed into a variety of products: plastics, clothes fabrics, paints, laundry detergent, food additives...
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petrochemical
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...denoting substances obtained by the refining and processing of petroleum or natural gas: a huge petrochemical works producing plastics. ∎ of or relating to petrochemistry. • n. (usu. petrochemicals ) a chemical obtained from...
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aniline
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...Chem. a colorless oily liquid, C 6 H 5 NH 2 , present in coal tar. It is used in the manufacture of dyes, drugs, and plastics. ORIGIN: mid 19th cent. : from anil ‘indigo,'’ ultimately from Arabic an-nīl (from...
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contingency theory
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
...Lorsch ( Organization and Environment , 1967) found, in a study of ten firms in three different industrial environments (plastics, food, containers) in the United States, that the degree of uncertainty in the three ‘task sub-environments...
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anti-oxidant
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
...nature, that prevents or retards the oxidation by molecular oxygen (autoxidation) of materials such as food, rubber, and plastics. It acts by scavenging the free radicals generated in autoxidation chain reactions, and thus provides an alternative oxidation...
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