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polystyrene

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A vinylic polymer of styrene, CH2CHphenyl.

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When I arrive, Guzman and his kitchen team are piling knives, plastic totes and polystyrene boxes into the back of an SUV.

The ferry across to Miaohe passes through polystyrene fragments and other scattered detritus accumulating behind the dam.

By the time he retired in 2004, having risen to CEO in 1973 and chairman in 1977, there were 31,500 restaurants worldwide, and the number of sear-sizzled beef patties in a bun with melty American cheese popped into clamshell polystyrene packs seemed to stretch out to infinity.

Though a settlement may be imminent, the Haitian government of President Michel Martelly has sought to ban the import of poultry and eggs, claiming there was a risk of bird flu, a charge vigorously denied in Santo Domingo.Since the start of August it has also cracked down on the use of polystyrene containers, 80% of which come from the Dominican Republic.

An INVOcell is a cylindrical contraption about 4cm long and 3cm in diameter, made of gas-permeable polystyrene.

Banknotes containing it would produce distinctive colours when stretched, unlike counterfeits made from other materials.To use the film to detect food spoilage, Dr Baumberg proposes adding a sprinkle of carbon particles even smaller than the polystyrene spheres.

TO MAKE an impeller the fan-like part of the pumps that push ore-slurry down a pipeline the folk at Weir's foundry in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, begin with a polystyrene cast coated in ceramic paint.

In 1971 came noodles in heat-proof polystyrene cups, so that the hungry did not even need to get their bowls out of the cupboard.

Thus, a tube of toothpaste comes without a cardboard box; a TV set without all the polystyrene packing.

Traffic came to a stop at a crossroads where apparently at least three different types of police were trying to determine who could tell whom to shove off (you know it's bad, groused a crew supervisor, "when the police can't get the police to move").The rubbish itself was predictable: mostly fast-food wrappers, water bottles and polystyrene cups.

At the same time, the fact that Ebola claimed five of its authors is testament to the deadliness of the paper's subject.On June 4th, Stephen Gire, a public health researcher at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, took delivery of a polystyrene box from Kenema, Sierra Leone.

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