Sentences with phrase «first synthetic plastics»

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.