Crossword clues for styrofoam
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1950, trademark name (Dow Chemical Co.), from -styr- (from polystyrene) + connective -o- + foam (n.).
Wiktionary
n. Expanded polystyrene foam, such as is used in cups and packaging.
Wikipedia
Styrofoam is a trademarked brand of closed-cell extruded polystyrene foam currently made for thermal insulation and craft applications. It is owned and manufactured by The Dow Chemical Company.
In the United States and Canada, the word styrofoam incorrectly refers to expanded (not extruded) polystyrene foam, such as disposable coffee cups, coolers, or cushioning material in packaging, which is typically white and is made of expanded polystyrene beads. The term is used generically although it is a different material from the extruded polystyrene used for Styrofoam insulation. The Styrofoam brand polystyrene foam, which is used for craft applications, can be identified by its roughness and the fact that it "crunches" when cut. Additionally, it is moderately soluble in many organic solvents, cyanoacrylate, and the propellants and solvents of spray paint. A tradename for polystyrene foam is Thermocol, created by BASF for expanded polystyrene.
Styrofoam (Arne Van Petegem, born November 4, 1973) is a Belgian one man glitch electronica project ( indietronic) on the independent record label Morr Music. He also releases under the moniker Tin Foil Star and works as a guest musician with The Go Find and Orange Black.
On the album Nothing's Lost, Styrofoam worked together with artists Valerie Trebeljahr ( Lali Puna), Andrew Kenny ( The American Analog Set), Ben Gibbard ( Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service), Bent Van Looy ( Das Pop), Markus Acher ( The Notwist, Lali Puna), Miki Yoshimura (Munk) and Alias.
On November 11, 2012, Styrofoam went on indefinite hiatus, posting on Twitter "Styrofoam will be taking a break for now or for ever and ever. Don't worry though, things will be happening over here: https://www.facebook.com/COHOLIPS"
Usage examples of "styrofoam".
Outside of the wire there was a full-scale vagrant jungle, complete with dead vehicles, cannibalized containers, Styrofoam and cardboard shanties, cookfires, and teeming humanity.
Dallow and a couple of other indents had returned with boxes of doughnuts and a styrofoam coffee urn, most of the people were free.
With one broad swipe of the box, she cleared some old paper plates and styrofoam soyburger cartons from the table and onto the floor.
We were in a world of empty candy wrappers, Styrofoam coffee cups, potato chip bags, and cans of Coke with bits of chip floating in them.
Trail, Wendywho has electric-blue contact lenses and very complex and rigid blond hair and designer outfits and immaculate makeup and and accessories and French nails and can perhaps best be described as a very Republican -looking young lady indeedis back here at the beige table eating a large styrofoam cup of soup and using her cellphone to try to find someplace in downtown Charleston where Mrs.
In the hierarchy of hell this put him far below the archdemons like Mammon, master of avarice, but far above the blue-collar demons like Arrrgg, who was responsible for leeching the styrofoam taste into take-out coffee.
Shrewdly eyeing Sam’s Barry Bricken tweed jacket as she handed over the steaming Styrofoam cup, she decided to become gabby after all.
A legal pad crowded with numbers and chemical symbols lay beside him, and five Styrofoam cups with varying levels of cold coffee was scattered around the desk.
Outside the little house on School Street a frigid wind from Canada howled down the Androscoggin Valley and solidified the old snowdrifts into masses like dirty white styrofoam.
She projected a mesh over a potted African violet and turned it into an ugly plastic flower jabbed into a chunk of Styrofoam the shape of a cat.
We entered an anteroom that was used to store an assortment of play equipment: badminton rackets, golf clubs, baseball bats, a rack lined with a full set of croquet mallets and balls, Styrofoam kickboards for the pool, and a line of fiberglass surfboards that looked as if they'd been propped against the wall for years.
He spotted an alcove across the room where a table held a coffee urn and sleeves of Styrofoam cups.
A table held a coffee urn and bags of styrofoam cups, and a can of Yuban coffee stood next to the urn.
Squires said as he flipped open the hinged Styrofoam lid of the tray and surveyed the turkey slices, mashed potatoes, string beans, and corn muffin.
She pointed to three large Styrofoam cartons marked AMERICAN SPORT DIVERS, LAKE ELSINORE, CALIF.