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- 3. Oil sources can be this, causing plastic price changes.
- 6. Main raw material plastics are made from.
- 7. Plastic can be shaped easily – we say it’s this beginning with M.
- 9. Plastics can be moulded into these types of shapes.
- 10. Machine used to heat and bend acrylic.
- 13. Expanded polystyrene is suitable for this.
- 19. Protects police against riots made from tough polypropylene.
- 22. Thermoset plastic used in electric socket bodies.
- 23. Plastic (or anything) that you can't see through is called this.
- 25. Forming method needing a draft angle for release.
- 27. Polypropylene is used in the seat part of this school item.
- 29. Plastics don’t need surface finishes to resist this.
- 31. Thermoplastic used in vacuum forming.
- 33. Plastic used in chairs and impact-resistant items.
- 34. Rigid form plastics can be bought in.
- 35. Great plastic garbage patch in which ocean
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- 1. Sloped side in a mould to prevent sticking.
- 2. Cutting plastics this way can make a wide variety of shapes from a computer file
- 4. Vinyl is sold in this easy-to-use form.
- 5. One advantage of plastics – they come in many of these.
- 8. Process where plastics are shaped using heat and pressure.
- 11. Acrylic is brittle – it may do this if drilled.
- 12. Plastics are this, so they can store food without leaking.
- 14. Small plastic pieces used in injection moulding.
- 15. Plastic type that can be reheated and reshaped.
- 16. Plastic pollution can harm these sea creatures.
- 17. Expanded plastic foam used for packaging fragile items.
- 18. Plastic that once set, cannot be remoulded.
- 20. Moulding method using granules melted and forced into a mould.
- 21. System needed to remove toxic fumes from cutting plastic.
- 24. Plastics can be clear like glass – this word describes that.
- 26. Another name for plastics.
- 28. Thermoplastic used in laser cutters but brittle when drilled.
- 30. Semi-transparent plastic used for stylish effects.
- 32. Thermoplastics can be reshaped, helping with this process.
