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| Greenbuilding Archive for March 2001 |
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| 257 messages, last added Tue Nov 26 17:25:09 2002 |
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Re: [GBlist] ABS piping
At 11:02 AM -0600 3/30/2001, Valle Stevens wrote:
>Will someone please educate me as to what ABS piping is? I've not heard
>of it before. Forgive me for my ignorance.
ABS = Acrylonitrile Butadeine Styrene
"Mixes of polystyrene or styrene-acryloneitrile copolymers with
butadeine-acrylonitrile rubber."
LEGO has been made with it for almost 40 years. It is also becoming
a popular material in refrigerators. 79.9 GJ/ton of ABS.
http://ohoh.essortment.com/legohistory_rbco.htm
reuben deumling
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