Bakelite
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Patented July 1907 by its inventor, Leo Hendrik Baekeland. See -ite.
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Bakelite (uncountable)
- A heat-resisting chemically inert phenol formaldehyde resin (an early thermosetting plastic).
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heat-resisting chemically inert resin
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