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plastic

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Any of a large and varied class of materials used widely in manufacturing, which are organic polymers of high molecular weight based on synthetic materials, and can be molded, extruded, or cast when soft or liquid, and then set into a rigid or slightly elastic form.

Variations

resin (plastic)

Gums and resins, Synthetic

synthetic resin

Plastics as art material

artificial resin

plastics

resin, artificial

resin, synthetic

plastique

plastiques

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