cellophane

Masking tape is the easy-to-remove paper tape you use for decorating, rather than the clear cellophane stuff.

They've taken the cellophane off of that gargantuan data centre, so it's too late to return it for a refund.

You could also buy a pair of $8 orange safety goggles and a piece of orange cellophane to cover your phone.

You can also get the same effect using a piece of cellophane and the lens of a pair op polarized sunglasses.

When it gets to the store, the pallets sit in the back until they are needed and then the cellophane is cut off and the items go directly on the shelves.

It's conveniently cellophane-wrapped rebellion for people who need an identity but can't bear to stand alone and truly think for themselves.

Scientists do this all the time and win prizes--like cellophane tape to create graphene.

Dairy comes in extra boxes, but most of the stuff is stacked 3D-tetris-style 6 feet high on a pallet and then wrapped in cellophane on the pallet before getting loaded on the truck.

Perhaps better materials (now a polymer mesh) than used previously (cellophane wrap!).

My understanding is that cellophane generally does biodegrade in most settings.

Any article about biodegradable plastics should start with advantages over cellophane/cellulose.

But all the endless layers of cellophane, plastic wrap etc.

In an NPR interview someone mentioned that right after the words 'mother' and 'memory', in 1940 "the American public voted 'cellophane' as the third most beautiful word in the English language".

> “What amazed him most of all,” Peskov recorded, “was a transparent cellophane package.

To say that something is an emergent property of another thing, without showing the steps of that emergence is kind of like defining red as "an emergent property of the sun and a sheet of cellophane".

I found this quote interesting, and I think shows how hard it may be to predict such things: "What amazed him most of all," Peskov recorded, "was a transparent cellophane package.

Cellophane revolutionized food storage, and the gentleman in the OP recognized its usefulness.

Cellophane/rayon/viscose is kind of a borderline case.