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Title: Basics Of Polyethylene Manufacture, Structure, And Properties
Author: R. L Ayres
Source: American Gas Association 1981
Year Published: 1981
Abstract: Everything has to have a beginning, and the plastics industry has established 1868 as its start. In that year, an Albany, N.Y. inventor named John Westley Hyatt compared the declining population of elephants and the resulting shortage of ivory with the popular game of billiards and came up with an idea that launched the plastics industry. The young printer, who already had several inventions to his credit, began experimenting and found that a certain mixture of cotton, nitric acid, solid camphor and a small amount of alcohol became soft when heated and could be molded in a press. When it cooled, it became hard and strong.

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