NEW FORM OF GLASS
Glass that is not glass, yet clear as crystal, light weight, yet sturdy and non-shatterable and easily moulded, is being introduced to American industry. It is a plastic, known to the chemist as methyl methacrylate polymer, so transparent that you can see through several inches of it without distortion. Softer than glass and only half as heavy, it is flexible, and in liquid form can be poured into moulds and hardened, or used to impregnate wood, paper, stone, and fabrics to render them resistant to water and chemicals. Dropped on the floor, it will bounce without damage, and will resist a tension of four and five and one-half tons per square inch. Ultraviolet rays pass through this plastic with little resistance, and sunlight does not affect it. Pigments can be worked in to give H colour. It can be drilled, cut, sawed, or polished.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 67, 20 March 1937, Page 9
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148NEW FORM OF GLASS Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 67, 20 March 1937, Page 9
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