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• n  a thermosetting plastic used as electric insulators and for making plastic ware and telephone receivers etc.

• Most exotic: Isamu Noguchi's Radio Nurse, a grilled bakelite faceprettier as a radio than as a nurse.
• The selection varies from week to week but usually includes ceramic pots, hand-woven rugs, bakelite telephones, blue-and-white porcelain, petite concubines' shoes, faded .
• It is a synthetic resin, somewhat like bakelite.

• Bakelite

News & Articles

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• Momentive Specialty Chemicals and ISK Collaborate to Support Bakelite® Engineering Thermosets in North American
  Bakelite® engineering thermosets from Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc. have stood the “test of time” when called upon for high heat and chemical resistance in various applications.
  Sept. 11, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Tom Kalin in Canada.com
  The book actually spans over 100 years and talks about the birth of Bakelite. That was too much for the movie, so I concentrated on keeping things as minimal as possible,says Kalin.
• David Chesworth in Sydney Morning Herald
  My job at the time was making plastic and bakelite hi-fi knobs,Chesworth says. "It was driving me crazy. I was listening to 3AK Easy Listening; this kind of beautiful music station that played unreconstructed exotica, the worst of Ray...