bakelite
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Word Origin
- bakelite (n.)
- type of plastic widely used early 20c., 1909, from German Bakelit, named for Belgian-born U.S. physicist Leo Baekeland (1863-1944), who invented it. Originally a proprietary name, it is formed by the condensation of a phenol with an aldehyde.
Example
- 1. The big black bakelite phone rang at half past ten .
- 2. New bakelite wall monophone ( type 35a5 ) .
- 3. His current experiment was changing a plug on an ancient bakelite radio his mother had given him to play with .
- 4. Impervious to temperature , acids and moisture , bakelite was nearly indestructible .
- 5. In truth , bakelite whose more chemically formal name is polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanliydrid ---- was just a harbinger of the age of plastics .