thermoplastic

  1. Home
  2. top of the aat hierarchies
  3. Materials Facet
  4. Materials (hierarchy name)
  5. materials (substances)
  6. [materials by composition]
  7. organic material
  8. plastic (material)
  9. [plastic by property]
  10. thermoplastic
Scope note
Plastic that becomes soft when heated and hard when cooled, no matter how often these processes are repeated, because of little or no cross-bonding between molecules.
thermoplastic
Accepted term: 06-May-2024