Plastic Industry Terms
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| Term | Definition |
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| Viscoelasticty |
The tendency of plastics to respond to stress as if they were a combination of elastic solids and viscous fluids. This property possessed by all plastics to some degree, dictates that while plastics have solid-like characteristics such as elasticity, strength, and form-stability, they also have liquid-like characteristics such as flow depending upon time, temperature, rate, and amount of loading. |