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2. Picture frame - Wikipedia

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   View of a frame-maker's workshop, oil on canvas, circa 1900 The elaborate decoration on this frame may be made by adhering molded plaster pieces to the wood base.. A picture frame is a container that borders the perimeter of a picture, and is used for the protection, display, and visual appreciation of objects and imagery such as photographs, canvas paintings, drawings and prints, posters ...

3. Mat (picture framing) - Wikipedia

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   A picture (a photo or print, drawing, etc.) is placed beneath it, with the cutout framing it. The passe-partout serves two purposes: first, to prevent the image from touching the glass, and second, to frame the image and enhance its visual appeal. The cutout in the passe-partout is usually beveled to avoid casting shadows on the picture. The ...

4. Picture framing glass - Wikipedia

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   Low-iron, or water white glass, is made using special iron free silica, and is generally only available in 2.0 millimetres (0.079 in) thicknesses for picture framing applications. Because low iron glass light absorption can be as low as 0.5%, compared to about 2% for clear glass, the light transmission will be better than clear glass. Low iron ...

5. Plastic - Wikipedia

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   In 2018 more than 343 million tons of plastic waste were generated, 90% of which was composed of post-consumer plastic waste (industrial, agricultural, commercial and municipal plastic waste). The rest was pre-consumer waste from resin production and manufacturing of plastic products (e.g. materials rejected due to unsuitable color, hardness ...

6. The Wal-Mart Effect - Wikipedia

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   In 2013, the Democratic staff of the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce released a report called Wal-Mart's The Low‐Wage Drag on Our Economy: Wal‐Mart's low wages and their effect on taxpayers and economic growth, which analyzed Walmart's effect on U.S. government finances and concluded that each Wal-Mart store with at ...