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Plastics have evolved considerably since the first natural plastics, celluloid, was developed over a one hundred years ago in the United States as a substitute for ivory in billiard balls. It is safe to say that the consumer revolution of the past thirty years is basically a plastics’ revolution. Without plastics, consumers could not afford or even get, many of the products that are on the market today.
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Rammrath, H.G. (1990). The Future of Engineering Plastics. In: Sōmiya, S., Doyama, M., Hasegawa, M., Agata, Y. (eds) Transactions of the Materials Research Society of Japan. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0789-8_4
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