Sentence examples for styrene from inspiring English sources
noun
An aromatic hydrocarbon, vinyl-benzene; a colourless, oily liquid, used in the manufacture of polymers such as polystyrene
The printing materials, mostly polymers such as acrylonitrile butadiene styrene or polylactic acid, lack the mechanical strength needed for making parts sturdy enough to do a useful job.
Tiertime makes a range of 3D printers that produce objects from polymeric "alloys" of acrylonitrile, butadiene and styrene (ABS, the material from which Lego bricks are made).
They can make things out of a thermoplastic such as acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), polylactic acid or polycarbonate, or metallic powders, clays and even living cells.
The tiny particles are made from polymerised styrene and butadiene normal tyre ingredients but bind better to the silica also found in normal tyres than larger lumps of the same stuff.
The goop used for printing can be a thermoplastic such as acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), polylactic acid or polycarbonate, or metallic powders, clays and even living cells depending on the application (see "Making it", November 25th 2011).
Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, better known as ABS, is the most common 3D-printing material.
A modern tyre contains up to 30 different materials, including synthetic polymers such as styrene-butadiene rubber, according to Forrest Patterson, Michelin's technical director in America.A "durable security compound" incorporated into the treads of the company's new Energy Saver tyre helps maintain the tyre's rigidity, allowing it to grip the road.
While nonmetallic materials have been plated since the mid-19th century, a period of rapid growth in the utilization of electroplated plastics began in 1963 with the introduction of ABS plastic (acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene), which was readily plated.
The major elastomers employed as adhesives are natural rubber, butyl rubber, butadiene rubber, styrene-butadiene rubber, nitrile rubber, silicone, and neoprene.
Nitrile rubber, like styrene-butadiene rubber and other synthetic elastomers (elastic polymers), was a product of research that took place during and between the two world wars.
ABS is a graft copolymer that is, a giant molecule predominantly made up of chains of polybutadiene growing from a backbone chain of styrene-acrylonitrile copolymer (SAN) amid more SAN that does not contain pendant polybutadiene.
