PREFACE - This encyclopedia is an attempt to coordinate and unify practical information onplastic, polymer, and resin trademark products. These categories overlap, i.e., plasticsare a subset of polymers, and resins are often, but not always, polymers. However, ithas been our aim to give the user of this compilation fingertip availability to a largequantity of essential information about these products. This three-volume compendiumhas been made possible through the cooperation of the major national and internationalplastic, polymer, and resin manufacturers.The information provided here has been gleaned from thousands of brochures,technical bulletins, and data sheets, but the extent of the information provided foreach product has been limited by the amount of data given to us by the manufacturers.Whenever possible and/or appropriate, we have given the chemical description, applications,form and color, general, mechanical, thermal, and electrical properties of eachproduct.With the state of technological growth in these industries constantly increasing,this encyclopedia should serve as an important tool for chemists, engineers, and salespeoplehere and abroad.We want to extend our thanks to Roberta Dakan for her tireless efforts in helpingmake this encyclopedia as accurate and consistent as possible.It should be noted that when the temperatures of properties such as viscosity,density, solubility, etc. are not included, a standard temperature of 25 C is to be assumed.The information in this publication is reliable to the best of our knowledge.We would appreciate being informed of any errors or omissions so that these can beintegrated into subsequent editions of this encyclopedia.