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history of plastic
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The Surprising Origins: When Was Plastic Invented and How It Changed the World
Decades later, in 1907, Belgian-American chemist Leo Baekeland patented Bakelite , the first fully synthetic plastic. Unlike Parkesine, Bakelite was...
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The Surprising Truth Behind When and Who Invented Plastic—A Material That Changed Civilization
Yet Parkes wasn’t the sole architect of this modern enigma. Across the Atlantic, in the sweltering heat of New Jersey, a Belgian chemist named Leo Baekeland...