![]() ![]() However, they seemed to have forgotten to put in the picture of the plexiglass. ![]() I looked it up, it’s in the Oxford Dictionary. As an aside, I can type awesomesauce and my auto correct feature ignores it, thereby telling me that there is no spelling correction needed. Now that we have established what plexiglass is, and all the many ways it is used, we can safely and confidently answer the directive questions in the title of this blog.Īnswer: Plexiglass is awesomesauce. Oh, and it also just so happens that you can make social distancing partitions, barriers, and sneeze guards out of plexiglass. ![]() I have a lucite Monopoly game at home- it’s neon and glows in the dark. Bullet-proof barriers, building windows, skylights. John Bonham of Led Zeppelin played a plexiglass drum set called Vistalites. Plexiglass was used in making Laserdiscs! Remember those?! No? It is used in semiconductor research as a resistant, and can block beta radiation from radioisotopes. Salvador Dali once even painted directly onto a plexiglass canvas! Plexiglass, under the trade name Lucite, was a very popular jewelry material, creating iconic fashion trends that carry through to today. Acrylic paint is basically just a water-suspension of plexiglass. Due to its degree of compatibility with human tissue (!) it is used in intraocular lenses, which are implanted in the human eye during cataract surgery, and it is widely used to create artificial teeth and denture implants. It was used in the ceiling of the Houston Astrodome, which apparently was nominated as one of the many candidates for the 8 th Wonder of the World. It is an important material in manufacturing lighthouse lenses. It is commonly used for constructing both in the home and large-scale commercial public aquariums. Plexiglass has been used as viewing ports and pressure hulls in deep-sea submersibles. One of the first uses of plexiglass was in the canopy of fighter planes in World War II. So, as we are asking in our post title, why should you care? Why care about something that by its stated purpose isn’t something else? Fine, let’s talk about its uses then. In the most basic form of an explanation, so far, we have covered that Plexiglass is a glass alternative, made from a plastic. For our social distancing product lines here at Cutplex, we utilize anti-reflection plexiglass. When PMMA is modified with additives or fillers, it then takes on differing features. Regardless of what you may call it, PMMA, discovered and created in the early 1930’s separately in both the United Kingdom and Germany, is a transparent thermoplastic that is used as a shatter-resistant alternative to glass, in a wide variety of applications, treatments, and mediums. PMMA, as if it were some international material of mystery, is known by many names: Lucite, acrylic, Perspex, acrylate, and plexiglass, to list a few. ^ This is the chemical symbol for poly(methyl methacrylate) (“PMMA”), also known, specifically for the purpose of this post, as: plexiglass…unless it’s the zodiacal symbol for the planet Uranus, or it’s that quiz question in geometry I always failed, or…wait, no, that’s the cover of my favorite Prince album. ![]()
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