词汇 | bakelite |
词源 | Bakelite. Employed chiefly as an electric insulator, Bakelite has numerous industrial uses, including the manufacture of phonograph records, machinery, and even buttons, pipe stems, and billiard balls. A heat-resistant, synthetic resin or plastic, valuable as a nonconductor of electricity, it is prepared by the chemical interaction of phenolic substances and aldehydes. Ba- kelite was invented by Leo Hendrik Baekeland (1863–1944), a Flemish chemistry teacher who migrated to the United States from Ghent, Belgium in 1889. Seven years later he announced the invention of Bakelite, a registered name used by the company. |
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