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Foam plastic
Answer for the clue "Foam plastic ", 7 letters:
styrene
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Word definitions for styrene in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Styrolene \Sty"ro*lene\, n. (Chem.) An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C8H8 , obtained by the distillation of storax, by the decomposition of cinnamic acid, and by the condensation of acetylene, as a fragrant, aromatic, mobile liquid; -- called also phenyl ethylene ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
colorless hydrocarbon, 1885, from Styrax , name of a genus of trees (the chemical is found in their resin), 1786, from Latin styrax , from Greek styrax , the tree name, of Semitic origin (compare Hebrew tsori "terebinth resin"). Form influenced by Greek ...
Usage examples of styrene.
When he concentrated on the odours assaulting his nose, he could pick up the traces of hydroxyls, propylene, styrene and various aminoplastics.
Even though we know, from the encyclopedias, that the secret is to co-polymerize butadiene and styrene (or acrylonitrile), where exactly are the butadiene and styrene coming from?
There were half-eaten pizzas – krill balls in red sauce, and Bobby’s stomach began to churn – beside cascading stacks of software, smudged glasses with cigarettes crushed out in purple wine dregs, a pink styrene tray with neat rows of stale-looking canapés, open and unopened cans of beer, an antique Gerber combat dagger that lay unsheathed on a flat block of polished marble, at least three pistols, and perhaps two dozen pieces of cryptic-looking console gear, the kind of cowboy equipment that ordinarily would have made Bobby’s mouth water.
The overlit fluorescent corridor into Allied Messengers smelled of hot styrene, laser printers, abandoned running-shoes, and stale bag lunches, this last tugging Chevette toward memories of some unheated day-care basement in Oregon, winter's colorless light slanting in through high dim windows.
The wing skeleton is dressed in styrene feather-foils with individual quilling of scapulars and primaries.
Then I went into my medical bag and got out half a dozen black rings made of acrylonitrile-butadiene- styrene plastic, or more simply, the material that commonly composes pipes used for water and sewage lines.