NOUN
- a thermosetting plastic used as electric insulators and for making plastic ware and telephone receivers etc.
How To Use Bakelite In A Sentence
- They shook hands in the choky little trailer office in front of a table littered with scribbled papers, a Bakelite ashtray brimming with stubs.
- There's a plastic railway buffet display unit for sandwiches on the worktop, genuine adverts, circa 1962, for Hoovers on the walls, and a Bakelite radio on the windowsill.
- It had been all white, with a stainless-steel handle; now it was trimmed in black with a black Bakelite handle. DOLL'S EYES
- He called this material Bakelite - after himself - and it was the first thermosetting plastic in the world.
- In dramatic contrast to the black terrazzo floor, the table has a white Bakelite top set on columnar chromium-steel legs.
- Excellent design plasticity materials such as rubber. melamine . Bakelite. urea. powder. foam brake lining sheets. etc.
- If your socket is brown Bakelite plastic, it will normally unscrew into 2 halves.
- A reflecting galvanometer covered in Bakelite that's as heavy as a lead brick. Boing Boing: June 23, 2002 - June 29, 2002 Archives
- There were the melamine dishes, often used for camping and very similar in denseness to the bakelite of old. The Plastics Revolution « Colleen Anderson
- It's time to take the wheel, in each case a slender Bakelite rim of sailing ship proportions.
