Plastic
A plastic material is any of a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic organic solids that are moldable. Plastics are typically organic polymers of high molecular mass, but they often contain other substances. They are usually synthetic, most commonly derived from petrochemicals, but many are partially natural.
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1947 Ole Kirk purchases the first plastic moulding machine in Denmark, and the company begins manufacturing plastic toys. 1949 Lego begins producing similar plastic bricks, calling them "Automatic Binding Bricks." ...
... The word plastic is derived from the Greek πλαστικός (plastikos) meaning capable of being shaped or molded, from πλαστός (plastos) meaning molded ... The common word plastic should not be confused with the technical adjective plastic, which is applied to any material which undergoes a permanent change of shape (plastic ... instance, exhibits plasticity in this sense, but is not plastic in the common sense in contrast, in their finished forms, some plastics will break before deforming and therefore are not plastic in ...
... Their subsidiary Rovex, which specialised in plastic, then developed Scalextric, converting the metal cars to the easier and cheaper to mould plastic ... The track, which was originally a rubber compound, became moulded plastic at a later date ...
... Eduard Model Accessories is a Czech manufacturer of plastic models and finescale model accessories ... Following the success of their early products, the company branched off into plastic models in 1993 ... As of 2006, Eduard's product line contained some 30 plastic kits and more than 800 individual photoetch detail sets ...
... The Exploding Plastic Inevitable, sometimes simply called Plastic Inevitable or EPI, was a series of multimedia events organized by Andy Warhol between 1966 and 1967, featuring musical ... Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable is also the title of a 18-minute film by Ronald Nameth with recordings from one week of performances of the shows which were ... In December 1966 Warhol included a one-off magazine called The Plastic Exploding Inevitable as part of the Aspen No ...
More definitions of "plastic":
- (noun): Generic name for certain synthetic or semisynthetic materials that can be molded or extruded into objects or films or filaments or used for making e.g. coatings and adhesives.
- (adj): Used of the imagination.
Example: "Material...transformed by the plastic power of the imagination"--Coleridge
Famous quotes containing the word plastic:
“These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“And I threw a little earth
on the pink coffin
covered by the fake plastic grass
and said O.K., God,
if it’s the end of the world,
it must be necessary.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.”
—Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918)