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Plastic
Plastic Plas"tic (pl[a^]s"t[i^]k), a. [L. plasticus, Gr. ?,
fr. ? to form, mold: cf. F. plastique.]
1. Having the power to give form or fashion to a mass of
matter; as, the plastic hand of the Creator. --Prior.
See plastic Nature working to his end. --Pope.
2. Capable of being molded, formed, or modeled, as clay or
plaster; -- used also figuratively; as, the plastic mind
of a child.
3. Pertaining or appropriate to, or characteristic of,
molding or modeling; produced by, or appearing as if
produced by, molding or modeling; -- said of sculpture and
the kindred arts, in distinction from painting and the
graphic arts.
Medallions . . . fraught with the plastic beauty and
grace of the palmy days of Italian art. --J. S.
Harford.
Meaning of Plastics from wikipedia
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Plastics are a wide
range of
synthetic or semi-synthetic
materials that use
polymers as a main ingredient.
Their plasticity makes it
possible for plastics...
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Biodegradable plastics are
plastics that can be
decomposed by the
action of
living organisms,
usually microbes, into water,
carbon dioxide, and biom****...
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wildlife and
their habitat.
Plastics that act as
pollutants are
categorized by size into micro-, meso-, or
macro debris.
Plastics are
inexpensive and durable...
- The
Plastics may
refer to
Plastics, a ****anese
technopop band The
Plastics, a
South African indie rock band The
Plastics, name of a
clique of schoolgirls...
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polyethylene resins are
being produced annually,
accounting for 34% of the
total plastics market. Many
kinds of
polyethylene are known, with most
having the chemical...
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Commodity plastics or
commodity polymers are
plastics produced in high
volumes for
applications where exceptional material properties are not needed[according...
- The
Plastics Industry ****ociation,
abbreviated as
PLASTICS, is a
trade ****ociation
representing the
plastics industry.
Founded in 1937 as the
Society of...
- The
plastics industry manufactures polymer materials—commonly
called plastics—and
offers services in
plastics important to a
range of industries, including...
- by
fermentation of
sugars or lipids. In contrast,
common plastics, such as fossil-fuel
plastics (also
called petro-based polymers) are
derived from petroleum...
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MARPOL agreements,
whose Annex V
banned dumping plastics in the oceans. As
regulations expanded, the
plastics industry responded with
lobbying to preserve...
