The first synthetic plastics were revolutionary and allowed for everything from unbreakable baby cups to military vehicle parts.
Not exact matches
The smell was the
first thing that gave the
synthetic stuff away: while the Ruffino smelled grapey and fruity, the
synthetic wine smelled astringent, more like cleaning alcohol or
plastic.
Katie Anthony, a mother of two and a Seattle - based blogger at KatyKatiKate.com, cloth - diapered for her
first baby but crossed over for her second, lamenting, «When you pull the Diaper Genie bag out of the pail, and you just see this blue
plastic tube full of NASA - invented
synthetic fibers that are soaked in human waste, and it's just this foul little sausage, there's a part of me that is really sad.»
Combine that with the use of
synthetic materials like
plastic and rubber - its no wonder that according to the Journal of Pediatrics 63 % of babies using disposable diapers develop a diaper rash within the
first 8 weeks of life.
Dyes came
first, soon followed by paints, solvents, aspirin, sweeteners, laxatives, detergents, inks, anesthetics, cosmetics, adhesives, photographic materials, roofing, resins, and the
first primitive
plastics — all
synthetic and all derived from coal tar, the fountainhead of commercial chemistry.
Already,
synthetic biology is making its
first steps as an enabling technology to produce fuels, chemicals, and
plastics.
First, he would create a frame from biodegradable,
synthetic polymers, which are essentially
plastics.
In 1907 the
first fully
synthetic plastic was invented, meaning it contained no particles that naturally occurred in nature.
The
first is provided by Tommy Grace and Kate Owens whose temporary «stained - glass» window transforms a section of the gallery's glass frontage with panels made of coloured
plastic bags, filtering the early summer sunlight and bathing the walls in a
synthetic pool of colour.
When Alexander Nolte and Oliver Spies
first learned about the
plastic pollution generated by washing
synthetic clothes, they were deeply alarmed.