Thermoset in a sentence as an adjective

Those other use cases are where things like thermoset plastics- think stuff like epoxy- come in handy.

The homes are made of Light Stone, a thermoset composite material that hardens when exposed to UV light.

There are some plastics like thermoset plastics that are fairly valuable commodities and are worth recycling.

All plastics are recyclable in the sense that they can be repurposed, but thermoset polymers cannot be repurposed to be used the same way as it was originally formed.

What about something entirely non-recyclable, like a designer thermoset plastic?

This kind of encapsulation, filling the empty spaces in the device with a thermoset resin, is called "potting", and it's been used for decades to improve the shock, vibration, and impact resistance of electronic circuits.

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.

Some thermoset plastics and halogenated polymers are effectively immune to UV, biological, and combined-effects breakdown.

Thermoset definitions

adjective

having the property of becoming permanently hard and rigid when heated or cured; "the phenol resins and plastics were the original synthetic thermosetting materials"

See also: thermosetting