With the development of materials science, more and more new materials have been available to human beings. At the forefront of materials science, graphene and carbon fiber are the world. Before carbon fiber is popularized, the most amazing material we can usually see is acrylic sheet.
In the construction industry, automobile industry, instrumentation and other industries, acrylic sheet has a huge application prospect. In our eyes, acrylic sheet looks like glass from a distance. If you touch it, it feels like plastic. This kind of acrylic sheet looks like the "hybrid product" of glass and plastic. What is it?
Acrylic is not a product of the 21st century. At the end of the 19th century, scientists made this chemical material, and it was not until the 1920s that acrylic sheet came off the production line. At the beginning of the acrylic sheet but high-grade goods, only used to make aircraft. With the improvement of modern technology, the production cost of acrylic sheet is greatly reduced, and it has become a civilian material.
We give acrylic this material an image name, that is "plexiglass". It has the same transparent texture as glass, but also has the toughness of plastic. Acrylic sheet is actually a kind of material composed of acrylic small particles and resin. The properties of acrylic products are different with different materials. There are also acrylic cotton, acrylic yarn and other materials.
The transparency of acrylic board is very popular. It has the transparency of glass, but its strength is much higher than that of glass. Acrylic sheet is very durable, wear-resistant, anti falling and shockproof. But compared with glass, acrylic sheet also has a disadvantage, that is, the melting point is very low, it will melt at 160 ℃. But this also makes acrylic materials have higher plasticity, which is very suitable for making handicrafts.
From the material division, acrylic sheet should be a kind of plastic, just looks like glass plastic.
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