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    Bakelite (/ˈbeɪkəlaɪt/ BAY-kə-lyte), formally poly­oxy­benzyl­methylene­glycol­anhydride, is a thermosetting phenol formaldehyde resin, formed from a condensation...
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    Rotary dial (redirect from Bakelite phones)
    A rotary dial is a component of a telephone or a telephone switchboard that implements a signaling technology in telecommunications known as pulse dialing...
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    photographic paper in 1893, and Bakelite in 1907. He has been called "The Father of the Plastics Industry" for his invention of Bakelite, an inexpensive, non-flammable...
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  • The Bakelite anti-tank mine type I and type II were Italian anti-tank mines produced during the Second World War. As the name suggests, the mines used...
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    phenol or substituted phenol with formaldehyde. Used as the basis for Bakelite, PFs were the first commercial synthetic resins. They have been widely...
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    the Solvay process and the Gramme dynamo, respectively, in the 1860s. Bakelite was developed in 1907–1909 by Leo Baekeland. Ernest Solvay also acted as...
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  • Hexion (redirect from Bakelite AG)
    Resolution Performance Products, Resolution Specialty Materials, and Bakelite AG. At that time they also acquired Pacific Epoxy Products. In 2010, the...
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  • of Brooks Baekeland, who was the grandson of Leo Baekeland, inventor of Bakelite plastic. She was murdered at her London home when her son Antony stabbed...
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    Spanish, was marketed by the Rickenbacker guitar company in 1935 and made of Bakelite. By 1936, the Slingerland company introduced a wooden solid-body electric...
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    flat-bottomed base. Egg cups can be made from a variety of materials, including bakelite, glass, plastic, porcelain, pottery, various metals, wood, or a combination...
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