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Product: Plastics
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Product: Plastics
Polymers
- Thermoplastics
- ABS
- High impact strength
- Good toughness
- Good strength
- Scratch resistant
- Lightweight and durable
- Kitchen products
- PET
- Moderate chemical resistance
- Bottles for beers/soft drinks
- Plugs and sockets
- Acrylic
- Stiff
- Hard but scratches easily
- Food safe
- Tough
- Easily machined
- Light units
- PP
- Lightweight
- Food safe
- Good impact resistance
- Hard/Tough
- Good chemical resistance
- HIPS
- Good impact resistance
- Good strength/stiffness
- Lightweight
- Vacuum formed packaging
- Expanded polystyrene
- Floats
- Good sound/heat insulator
- Lightweight
- Low strength
- Disposable cups/packaging
- LDPE
- Lightweight
- Low stiffness and rigidity
- Good chemical resistance
- Detergent bottles
- Carrier bags
- Tough
- Flexible
- HDPE
- High density
- Good stiffness
- Good chemical resistance
- Hard
- Can be sterilized
- Crates/buckets/bowls
- uPVC
- Stiff and hard wearing
- Good chemical resistance
- Tough and rigid
- Lightweight
- Pipes/guttering
- Characteristics
- No links between polymer chains
- Chains can move
- Can be heated and shaped many times
- ABS
- Thermosetting
- Epoxy Resin
- Hard
- Brittle unless reinforced
- Electrical insulator
- Adhesives
- Surface coating
- Polyester Resin
- Rigid
- Brittle unless laminated
- Good heat/chemical resistance
- Stiff/hard
- Casting
- Car bodies/boats
- Urea Formaldehyde
- Rigid
- Hard
- Good strength
- Brittle
- Heat resistant
- Good electrical insulator
- Electrical fittings
- Adhesives
- Melamine Formaldehyde
- Rigid/strong
- Stiff/hard
- Scratch resistant
- Can be coloured
- Tableware
- Decorative laminates
- Characteristics
- Can only be heated and shaped once
- Links between polymer chains stop movement
- Polymer chains are interlinked
- Epoxy Resin
- Thermoplastics
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- Mind Map on Product: Plastics, created by soniamartinelli1 on 06/03/2014.
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