Sentence examples for soft pvc from inspiring English sources
Results are presented for three materials; a soft polyvinylchloride (PVC), a stiffer PVC, and a two-layer material consisting of a thick layer of soft PVC covered by a thin layer of neoprene.
These additives, used to make PVC flexible, are toxic for human reproduction and development, and end up in consumer products when soft PVC is recycled.
Across Europe environmental groups have been lobbying for bans on such "soft PVC" in children's toys, arguing that, if chewed, it may cause cancer, kidney damage and other illnesses later in life.
Manufacturers of PVC, such as Belgium's Solvay, and makers of phthalates, such as Germany's BASF, would feel less pain: most soft PVC is used for other things and toys account for less than 1% of the demand for either product.
Soft PVC products -- like some rain boots, floor tiles and the squishy lining of screw-on bottle caps -- contain large quantities of phthalate plasticizers, which interfere with hormone regulation in wildlife and human beings.
The use of DiNP in soft PVC is increasing, and biomonitoring data show that human DiNP metabolite levels are rapidly increasing globally.
But of course, another tweet (which may well have been loaded with irony) got to the heart of what is going on here: Which brings us to Kojima's latest controversial tweet, about the Quiet action figure, which, it seems, will have squeezable breasts made of soft, pliable PVC.
A recently developed sandwich plate twist test is employed here for determination of the transverse shear modulus of the core and twist stiffness (D66) of a sandwich panel consisting of a soft (H45 PVC foam) core and glass/vinylester face sheets.
The bags' exteriors are made of a wipeable, soft moleskin textured PVC material.
It was constructed through the superposition of acrylic plates, simulating the soft tissue, and PVC plates, simulating bony tissue.
Background: Phthalates are used as plasticizers in soft polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and in a large number of consumer products.
