Thermoplastic used in a sentence

Thermoplastic in a sentence as a noun

Instead of ink traps you have thermoplastic traps.

Is it just carbon fibre in a thermoplastic matrix?

The rubber like seal on the end of the plunger is made of a thermoplastic elastomer.

If you heat up a thermoplastic, that viscous friction goes away and the plastic can be remolded.

Celluloid is the first thermoplastic, and the first material used for movie films, but it's highly flammable and has been replaced by acetate film.

The windlass ends up under a lot of shear force, and I would be surprised if a printed thermoplastic was able to deal with that without failing with some regularity.

Thermoplastic in a sentence as an adjective

You'd think they would be made out of a recyclable thermoplastic that could just be shredded and used in another process, but the article makes it sound like they were reused instead of recycled.

With thermosets, you have chemical bonds between molecules preventing deformation, whereas with thermoplastics, you just have a viscous friction between molecules that varies with temperature.

In a scenario where the thermoplastic would melt?I imagine there’s industrial-grade 3D-printing material, but if they’re in such a time crunch to get these out the door for Q2, it was probably quicker to just send an intern to Home Depot.

I doubt you could sell anything like that without at least being able to build a prototype, so perhaps that'd make a better first step than a patent application: Learn how to work with thermoplastic, rent some time with a CNC machine, teach yourself to whittle--whatever it takes.

3D Printed beam is packed with tens of \n thousands of full length, continuous carbon fiber strands\n\nConventional thermoplastic FDM printing has a lot of design constraints: no overhangs, voids, etc. Looking at this, it seems like it takes those design constraints, and adds some more: the fibre is aligned in the direction of the print head!