Disadvantages of acrylic plastic
- how strong is acrylic plastic
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Acrylic uses
All About Acrylic Plastic
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Acrylic is an amazingly useful thermoplastic for a wide range of applications.
It has desirable physical properties such as transparency and very good scratch resistance. It has a relatively lower impact strength (as seen in the bar graph below) but a higher impact resistance than glass.
It is often used as a laminated layer over Polycarbonate (PC).
Combining it with PC gives a scratch-resistant surface that is very strong and has the high impact resistance of PC. A bullet-proof “glass” is an example of such an application. Acrylic is also lighter than glass, with a density less than half that of glass.
Acrylic is a thermoplastic.
Acrylic sheetsHence, it can be heated and turned into liquid and cooled. It can subsequently be re-heated again and the same process can continue without any significant degradation. Acrylic is inexpensive and readily available.
Acrylic is more economical than Polycarbonate.
Another key difference between Acrylic and PC is
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