Expanded plastic

Expanded plastic

A plastic resin whose volume has been increased by bubbles of gas which are generated when the constituents of the plastic are mixed. Expanded plastic is also known as foamed plastic.

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Those plastics, the density of which is reduced by the presence of numerous small cavities (cells), interconnecting or not, dispersed throughout their mass.

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A plastic in the form of a rigid solid foam. Polystirene, used as a packing material, is a common example.

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That which can be modeled, or, alternatively, can be depicted as having three dimensions.

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