polypropylene
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- n a polymer of propylene used as a thermoplastic molding material
- The exuberant Starck made a splash with his polypropylene parody of the archetypal sofa in 2000, and it's now a chic poolside classic.
- It's not inflatable, but it's made from the same expanded polypropylene used for side-impact protection in car design.
- The plastics industry has estimated that the royalties on the manufacture of polypropylene might now amount to $ 15 million a year, but the polypropylene business itself has .