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  2. Thermoforming - Wikipedia

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    A sheet of hot plastic will be placed on top and the bed sealed, pulling the plastic down over the mold. In the most common method of high-volume, continuous thermoforming of thin-gauge products, plastic sheet is fed from a roll or from an extruder into a set of indexing chains that incorporate pins, or spikes, that pierce the sheet and ...

  3. Shape-memory polymer - Wikipedia

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    If the force is applied for a longer period of time, however, a relaxation process takes place whereby a plastic, irreversible deformation of the sample takes place due to the slipping and disentangling of the polymer chains. [1] To prevent the slipping and flow of polymer chains, cross-linking can be used, both chemical and physical.

  4. Glossary of sewing terms - Wikipedia

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    tailor-made (from the second half of the twentieth century usually simplified to tailored) refers to clothing made by or in the style of clothes made by a tailor, characterized by simplicity of cut and trim and fine (often hand) finishing; as a women's clothing style tailored is opposed to dressmaker. thread Thread is a fine type of yarn. thimble

  5. Polystyrene - Wikipedia

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    Polystyrene (PS) is used for producing disposable plastic cutlery and dinnerware, CD "jewel" cases, smoke detector housings, license plate frames, plastic model assembly kits, and many other objects where a rigid, economical plastic is desired.

  6. Poly(methyl methacrylate) - Wikipedia

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    It is a transparent thermoplastic, used as an engineering plastic. PMMA is also known as acrylic, acrylic glass, as well as by the trade names and brands Crylux, Hesalite, Plexiglas, Acrylite, Lucite, and Perspex, among several others . This plastic is often used in sheet form as a lightweight or shatter-resistant alternative to glass. It can ...

  7. 'Cobra Kai' star Ralph Macchio says staying 'out of Hollywood ...

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    Macchio met his wife when he was 15 years old. The couple tied the knot in August 1987. Several years later, they welcomed their daughter, Julia, in 1992 and son, Daniel, in 1995.

  8. Woodie (car body style) - Wikipedia

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    Introduced in 1981, the Ford Escort and Mercury Lynx four-door wagons offered optional simulated wood trim. GM offered its full-size wagons in wood trim versions until their final year in 1996. From 1982 to 1988, Chrysler used the Town & Country name on a station wagon version of the K-based, front wheel drive LeBaron, featuring plastic ...

  9. Trimmer (electronics) - Wikipedia

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    A common way of making preset inductors in radios is to wind the inductor on a plastic tube. A high permeability core material is inserted into the cylinder in the form of a screw. Winding the core further in to the inductor increases inductance and vice versa. It is normally necessary to use non-metallic tools to adjust inductors.