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Bakelite, the Glossary

Bakelite, formally, is a thermosetting phenol formaldehyde resin, formed from a condensation reaction of phenol with formaldehyde.^[1]

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Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene

Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) (chemical formula (C8H8)x·(C4H6)y·(C3H3N)z) is a common thermoplastic polymer.

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Adolf von Baeyer

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer (31 October 1835 – 20 August 1917) was a German chemist who synthesised indigo and developed a nomenclature for cyclic compounds (that was subsequently extended and adopted as part of the IUPAC organic nomenclature).

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Airco DH.4

The Airco DH.4 is a British two-seat biplane day bomber of the First World War.

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AK-74

The AK-74 (Russian: Автомат Калашникова образца 1974 года, tr. Avtomat Kalashnikova obraztsa 1974 goda, lit. 'Kalashnikov assault rifle model 1974') is an assault rifle designed by small arms designer Mikhail Kalashnikov in 1974 as a successor to the AKM.

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AKM

The AKM is an assault rifle designed by Soviet small arms designer Mikhail Kalashnikov in 1959.

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American Chemical Society

The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a scientific society based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry.

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American Institute of Chemical Engineers

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) is a professional organization for chemical engineers.

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Asbestos

Asbestos is a naturally occurring fibrous silicate mineral.

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Bayko

Bayko was a British building model construction toy invented by Charles Plimpton, an early plastics engineer and entrepreneur in Liverpool.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.

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Bound Brook, New Jersey

Bound Brook is a borough in Somerset County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, located along the Raritan River.

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Breitling SA

Breitling SA is a Swiss luxury watchmaker founded in 1884 in Saint-Imier, Switzerland, by Léon Breitling.

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Casino chip

Casino chips (also known as poker chips, gaming tokens, or checks/cheques) are small discs used as currency in casinos.

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Catalin

Catalin is a brand name for a thermosetting polymer developed and trademarked in 1927 by the American Catalin Corporation of New York City, when the patent on Bakelite expired that year. Bakelite and Catalin are phenol formaldehyde resins.

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Chess piece

A chess piece, or chessman, is a game piece that is placed on a chessboard to play the game of chess.

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Cigarette holder

A cigarette holder is a fashion accessory, a slender tube in which a cigarette is held for smoking.

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Coco Chanel

Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971) was a French fashion designer and businesswoman.

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Condensation reaction

In organic chemistry, a condensation reaction is a type of chemical reaction in which two molecules are combined to form a single molecule, usually with the loss of a small molecule such as water.

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Crystalate

Crystalate is an early plastic, a formulation of nitrocellulose, camphor, and alcohol invented in the late 19th century and patented by American inventor George Henry Burt. Bakelite and Crystalate are plastic brands.

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Curing (chemistry)

Curing is a chemical process employed in polymer chemistry and process engineering that produces the toughening or hardening of a polymer material by cross-linking of polymer chains.

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Darley Dale

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Diana Vreeland

Diana Vreeland (September 29, 1903 – August 22, 1989) was an American fashion columnist and editor.

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Dominoes

Dominoes is a family of tile-based games played with gaming pieces.

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Elsa Schiaparelli

Elsa Schiaparelli (10 September 1890 – 13 November 1973) was an Italian fashion designer from an aristocratic background.

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Ericsson DBH 1001 telephone

The Bakelite phone (bakelittelefon) officially known as Ericsson DBH 1001, and later as M33, N1020, and ED 702, was a Swedish line of telephones made from the polymer Bakelite and produced for over thirty years between 1931 and 1962.

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Faturan

Faturan, in Middle Eastern beadwork, is a material used to make beads, notably in the making of komboloi and misbaha. Bakelite and Faturan are phenol formaldehyde resins and thermosetting plastics.

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Filler (materials)

Filler materials are particles added to resin or binders (plastics, composites, concrete) that can improve specific properties, make the product cheaper, or a mixture of both.

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Formaldehyde

Formaldehyde (systematic name methanal) is an organic compound with the chemical formula and structure, more precisely.

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FR-2

FR-2 (Flame Resistant 2) is a NEMA designation for synthetic resin bonded paper, a composite material made of paper impregnated with a plasticized phenol formaldehyde resin, used in the manufacture of printed circuit boards. Bakelite and fR-2 are composite materials.

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Galalith

Galalith (Erinoid in the United Kingdom) is a synthetic plastic material manufactured by the interaction of casein and formaldehyde.

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Han van Meegeren

Henricus Antonius "Han" van Meegeren (10 October 1889 – 30 December 1947) was a Dutch painter and portraitist, considered one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century.

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Hexion

Hexion Inc. or Hexion (previously Momentive Specialty Chemicals) is a chemical company based in Columbus, Ohio.

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Infinity symbol

The infinity symbol is a mathematical symbol representing the concept of infinity.

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Insulator (electricity)

An electrical insulator is a material in which electric current does not flow freely.

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Jerry Byrd

Gerald Lester Byrd (March 9, 1920 – April 11, 2005) was an American musician who played the lap steel guitar in country and Hawaiian music, as well as a singer-songwriter and the head of a music publishing firm.

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Jewellery

Jewellery (or jewelry in American English) consists of decorative items worn for personal adornment, such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks.

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Johannes Vermeer

Johannes Vermeer (see below; also known as Jan Vermeer; October 1632 – 15 December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life.

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Kerria lacca

Kerria lacca is a species of insect in the family Kerriidae, the lac insects.

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Kerriidae

Kerriidae is a family of scale insects, commonly known as lac insects or lac scales.

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Lacquer

Lacquer is a type of hard and usually shiny coating or finish applied to materials such as wood or metal.

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Lacquerware

Lacquerware are objects decoratively covered with lacquer.

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Lawrence V. Redman

Lawrence V. Redman (September 1, 1880 – November 26, 1946), was a Canadian chemist and businessman who spent much of his adult life in the United States.

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Leo Baekeland

Leo Hendrik Baekeland (November 14, 1863 – February 23, 1944) was a Belgian chemist.

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Liberty L-12

The Liberty L-12 is an American water-cooled 45° V-12 aircraft engine displacing and making designed for a high power-to-weight ratio and ease of mass production.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Mahjong

Mahjong (English pronunciation) is a tile-based game that was developed in the 19th century in China and has spread throughout the world since the early 20th century.

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Martin NBS-1

The Martin NBS-1 was a military aircraft of the United States Army Air Service and its successor, the Army Air Corps.

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Metallography is the study of the physical structure and components of metals, by using microscopy.

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Micarta

Micarta is a brand name for composites of linen, canvas, paper, fiberglass, carbon fiber, or other fabric in a thermosetting plastic. Bakelite and Micarta are composite materials.

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Molding (process)

Molding (American English) or moulding (British and Commonwealth English; see spelling differences) is the process of manufacturing by shaping liquid or pliable raw material using a rigid frame called a mold or matrix.

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National Electrical Manufacturers Association

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) is the largest trade association of electrical equipment manufacturers in the United States.

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National Historic Chemical Landmarks

The National Historic Chemical Landmarks program was launched by the American Chemical Society in 1992 to recognize significant achievements in the history of chemistry and related professions.

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Novolak

Novolaks (sometimes: novolacs) are low molecular weight polymers derived from phenols and formaldehyde. Bakelite and novolak are phenol formaldehyde resins and thermosetting plastics.

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Novotext

Novotext is a trade name for cotton textile-phenolic resin, essentially cotton-reinforced Bakelite. Bakelite and Novotext are composite materials.

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Operating temperature

An operating temperature is the allowable temperature range of the local ambient environment at which an electrical or mechanical device operates.

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Paul B. Coremans

Paul Bernard Joseph Marie Coremans (29 April 1908 – 11 June 1965) was a Belgian scientist who advanced the fields of cultural heritage management and cultural heritage curation.

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Paul T. Frankl

Paul T. Frankl (October 14, 1886 – March 21, 1958), an Art Deco furniture designer and maker, architect, painter and writer from Vienna, Austria, was the son of a wealthy real estate speculator.

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Penny (United States coin)

The cent, the United States of America one-cent coin (symbol: ¢), often called the "penny", is a unit of currency equaling one one-hundredth of a United States of America dollar.

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Phenol

Phenol (also known as carbolic acid, phenolic acid, or benzenol) is an aromatic organic compound with the molecular formula.

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Phenol formaldehyde resin

Phenol formaldehyde resins (PF) (phenolic resins or phenoplasts) are synthetic polymers obtained by the reaction of phenol or substituted phenol with formaldehyde. Bakelite and phenol formaldehyde resin are phenol formaldehyde resins and thermosetting plastics.

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Photographic paper

Photographic paper is a paper coated with a light-sensitive chemical formula, like photographic film, used for making photographic prints.

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Photoresist

A photoresist (also known simply as a resist) is a light-sensitive material used in several processes, such as photolithography and photoengraving, to form a patterned coating on a surface.

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Plastic

Plastics are a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic materials that use polymers as a main ingredient. Bakelite and Plastic are Dielectrics.

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Plastics industry

The plastics industry manufactures polymer materials—commonly called plastics—and offers services in plastics important to a range of industries, including packaging, building and construction, electronics, aerospace, manufacturing and transportation.

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Polymer

A polymer is a substance or material consisting of very large molecules linked together into chains of repeating subunits.

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Polymerization

In polymer chemistry, polymerization (American English), or polymerisation (British English), is a process of reacting monomer molecules together in a chemical reaction to form polymer chains or three-dimensional networks.

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Popular Science

Popular Science (also known as PopSci) is a U.S. popular science website, covering science and technology topics geared toward general readers.

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Prodema

Prodema is a wood based material used for the interior and exterior of buildings. Bakelite and Prodema are composite materials.

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Redmanol Chemical Products Company

Redmanol Chemical Products Company was an early plastics manufacturer formed in 1913.

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Retro style

Retro style is imitative or consciously derivative of lifestyles, trends, or art forms from the past, including in music, modes, fashions, or attitudes.

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Rickenbacker

Rickenbacker International Corporation is a string instrument manufacturer based in Santa Ana, California.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.

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Sacred Heart University

Sacred Heart University (SHU) is a private, Roman Catholic university in Fairfield, Connecticut.

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Shellac

Shellac is a resin secreted by the female lac bug on trees in the forests of India and Thailand.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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Thermosetting polymer

In materials science, a thermosetting polymer, often called a thermoset, is a polymer that is obtained by irreversibly hardening ("curing") a soft solid or viscous liquid prepolymer (resin). Bakelite and thermosetting polymer are thermosetting plastics.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakelite

Also known as Baekelite, Bakelite Museum, Bakerlite, Condensite, Phenolic sheet, Polyoxybenzylmethyleneglycolanhydride, Polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride.

, National Electrical Manufacturers Association, National Historic Chemical Landmarks, Novolak, Novotext, Operating temperature, Paul B. Coremans, Paul T. Frankl, Penny (United States coin), Phenol, Phenol formaldehyde resin, Photographic paper, Photoresist, Plastic, Plastics industry, Polymer, Polymerization, Popular Science, Prodema, Redmanol Chemical Products Company, Retro style, Rickenbacker, Royal Air Force, Sacred Heart University, Shellac, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Thermosetting polymer, Time (magazine), Tobacco pipe, Trademark, Tyseley, Union Carbide, United States Mint, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Used good, Vogue (magazine), Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Yonkers, New York, Zinc chloride, 1943 steel cent.

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See also

1909 introductions

Dielectrics

Phenol formaldehyde resins

Plastic brands

Thermosetting plastics

References