The 20th Century World has been transformed by the discovery and
use of plastics. Today plastic materials are used in a wide variety
of applications, from building and construction to packaging, from
sports equipment to transportation. The vast number of plastics
materials discovered over the past 40 years and their wide range of
properties make them uniquely suited to a very broad spectrum of
applications.
This combination of the successful utilisation of the materials
and the number of types of material available has led to the growth
of an array of technical terms within the field. The "Dictionary"
is intended as a reference tool for readers to negotiate these
terms.
The main part of the "Technical Dictionary of Plastics
Materials" presents a comprehensive set of extended definitions of
technical terms relating to all facts of the materials aspect of
plastics technology. The definitions cover the nature of plastics
materials, their composition (including relevent non-polymeric
componants and additives, such as stabilisers, fillers, colourants,
etc), their properties (including methods of property
determination, testing, and evaluation), their applications, and
their handling and behaviour in processing. In many cases reference
is given to the relevant technical standards from the International
(ISO), British (BSI), and American (ASTM) standards.
In addition to the main part of the "Dictionary" containing the
definitions there are two further sections. The first gives
explanations of the abbreviated terms (letter symbols) used for the
parent polymer and for the other constituents of plastics
materials, while the second identifies the trade names of a number
of plastics materials and their components.
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