The Collaborative International Dictionary
Polyurethane \Pol"y*ur`eth*ane\, n. (Chem.) any polymer containing [-NH.CO.O-] linkages; such polymers are much used as the basis of light but rigid foams for packaging (
polyurethane foam) and for hard coatings, as on floors.
WordNet
n. a foam made by adding water to polyurethane plastics [syn: polyfoam]
Usage examples of "polyurethane foam".
Ayeeyah, the Pacific Rim will gorge on all the polyurethane foam products we can make for packaging, building, bedding and insulating.
Ayeeyah, the Pacific Rim will gorge on all the polyurethane foam products we can make-for packaging, building, bedding and insulating.
The-additional four disposal tubes, each containing a single missile nestled in the molded white polyurethane foam packaging.
They did try coating the second stage with polyurethane foam for insulation.
The transport pipe had to be packed in a thick cylinder of white polyurethane foam, then fitted into a larger protective pipe.
I heard a thunk behind me and saw a dummy that I probably ought not to have seen: a plastic female body almost identical to Karenbony, taut, skeletal, and yellowed, made of polyurethane foam, with long straight brown Orion hair parted in the middle.
Also ready for installation were curved blocks of polyethylene and polyurethane foam, because a device of this sort required the special properties of both the strongest and the flimsiest materials.
There, in a small fiberglass research and manufacturing facility owned by COSCO, a mold had been developed using rigid polyurethane foam as the primary material.
The hard plastic and polyurethane foam used for the interior could add nothing to their skimpy clothing.
The tanks were coated with four inches of polyurethane foam and reflective shielding, to reduce boiloff of the cryogenic propellants.
Roget Germyn was too busy to grieve, so he lived on, no theorist, not very cerebral, but glorying in a full gut, in taking a strong woman, in waking and lying extra minutes idly on a bed of polyurethane foam raped from its cushioning job in a stamping mill.