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Bakelite

/ˈbeɪk.ə.laɪt/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A heat-resisting chemically inert phenol formaldehyde resin (an early thermosetting plastic).

Etymology / origin

Patented July 1907 by its inventor, Leo Hendrik Baekeland. See -ite.

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