A Brief Definition of Engineering Plastics
Our society has become heavily dependent on plastic. These synthetic materials can be found seemingly everywhere—they’re used in automobiles, food containers, chairs, pipes, and prosthetics, to name only a bare handful of examples. This tends to come as a surprise to many people who habitually associate plastic with, for example, soda pop bottles or grocery bags. How can such a seemingly flimsy substance have such widespread applications? The answer, of…