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    Bakelite (/ˈbeɪkəlaɪt/ BAY-kə-lyte), formally poly­oxy­benzyl­methylene­glycol­anhydride, is a thermosetting phenol formaldehyde resin, formed from a condensation...
    45 KB (4,595 words) - 11:11, 29 April 2024
  • Formica (plastic) (category Articles with short description)
    mica used as electrical insulation, made of wrapped woven fabric coated with Bakelite thermosetting resin, then slit lengthwise, flattened, and cured in...
    10 KB (1,113 words) - 21:11, 18 September 2023
  • standard piece of equipment at the BBC. Coates also designed the distinctive and influential round bakelite cabinets used by EKCO for some of its radios...
    14 KB (1,571 words) - 21:38, 28 February 2024
  • Barbara Daly Baekeland (category Articles with short description)
    of Leo Baekeland, inventor of Bakelite plastic. She was murdered at her London home when her son Antony stabbed her with a kitchen knife, killing her almost...
    15 KB (1,712 words) - 22:06, 26 May 2024
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    1942 experimental cents (category Articles with short description)
    compositions. Patterns were also struck with modified rim Lincoln cent dies. One of the compositions tested, zinc-coated steel, was chosen for the 1943 cent...
    4 KB (159 words) - 22:39, 14 April 2022
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    Lüdenscheid (category Articles with short description)
    reflected in the Button Museum. Later, new materials like aluminium, bakelite, and plastics were adopted. A supporting industry producing the forms for...
    11 KB (967 words) - 11:56, 22 March 2024
  • Prodema (category All articles with unsourced statements)
    interior and exterior of buildings. It is made up of natural wood with a bakelite core. Also known as a composite wooden panel, it has been in use since...
    1 KB (167 words) - 05:05, 29 October 2023
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    Lensahn (category Articles with short description)
    bone; 2nd thirdly Gules, Or ear; 3rd thirdly Or, Gules barry.“ Lensahn’s coat of arms was permitted not until 1950. The golden ear depicts the formerly...
    10 KB (1,251 words) - 08:04, 1 May 2024
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    Antique radio (category All articles with dead external links)
    component of bakelite, with no organic filler added, but nearly all historic bakelite radios are the standard black-brown bakelite color. Bakelite as used...
    27 KB (3,820 words) - 09:24, 27 April 2024
  • Contact copier (category All articles with unsourced statements)
    or Bakelite). This pre-sensitized plate comprises an insulating plate (epoxy resin or bakelite), adhered with a layer of copper, and coated with a varnish...
    10 KB (1,176 words) - 06:22, 6 December 2023
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    Shellac (category Articles with short description)
    applications use shellac mixed with other natural or synthetic resins, such as pine resin or phenol-formaldehyde resin, of which Bakelite is the best known, for...
    37 KB (4,402 words) - 13:08, 15 May 2024
  • G-10 (material) (category Articles with short description)
    flame retardant additives have replaced G-10 in certain applications. Bakelite "What is G-10 Handle Material? Knife Handles, Grips, Scales & More". KnifeArt...
    4 KB (496 words) - 21:31, 21 October 2023
  • Celluloid (category Articles with short description)
    disadvantage the material had was that it was flammable. It was soon overtaken by Bakelite and Catalin. Soviet roly-poly dolls were made from celluloid on smokeless...
    19 KB (2,332 words) - 05:15, 19 March 2024
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    Belgium (category Pages with Dutch IPA)
    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...
    208 KB (18,680 words) - 19:18, 23 May 2024
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    Vz. 58 (category Articles with short description)
    folding stock), outer parts are blued. All variants with the exception of the -01W have bakelite stocks. CSA vz. 58 Sporter: Available in .222 Remington...
    33 KB (3,114 words) - 13:24, 25 May 2024
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    rust-coloured shades, and are often mistakenly identified as being made of Bakelite (a phenolic resin), but were actually fabricated from two-parts of AG-4S...
    94 KB (9,175 words) - 21:17, 14 May 2024
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    own bakelite moulding shop adjacent to its Southend-on-Sea works. The company employed famous architects such as Serge Chermayeff and Wells Coates to design...
    11 KB (1,338 words) - 15:27, 15 January 2024
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    Jerkin (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    were dark brown with black wool linings and differed in general appearance from the British jerkins. The jerkins from WWII had bakelite buttons instead...
    6 KB (817 words) - 17:23, 14 May 2024
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    The Procuress (Vermeer) (category Articles with short description)
    to Vermeer, of which technical analysis in 2011 revealed that there is Bakelite in the paint, definitively proving that the painting is a modern forgery...
    8 KB (881 words) - 18:29, 2 August 2023
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    Cake decorating (category Articles with short description)
    Halloween cake Guitar cake with edible frosting Chocolate cake decorated with foliage and chocolate roses Science cake with Bakelite oven chocolate cake top...
    18 KB (2,110 words) - 07:40, 29 April 2024
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