Bakelite

See also: bakelite, bakélite, and Bakélite

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Bakelite

Alternative forms

• bakelite

Etymology

Patented July 1907 by its inventor, Leo Hendrik Baekeland. See -ite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeɪk.ə.laɪt/

Noun

Bakelite (uncountable)

1. A heat-resisting chemically inert phenol formaldehyde resin (an early thermosetting plastic).

Synonyms

• polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride

Translations

heat-resisting chemically inert resin

Armenian: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: бакели́т m (bakelít) Chinese: Mandarin: 膠木 / 胶木 (zh) (jiāomù), 電木 / 电木 (zh) (diànmù) Czech: bakelit (cs) m Dutch: bakeliet (nl) n Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: bakeliitti (fi) French: Bakélite f Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Bakelit (de) n Greek: βακελίτης (el) m (vakelítis) Hungarian: bakelit (hu) Italian: bachelite (it) f Polish: bakelit (pl) m Portuguese: baquelite f, bakelite f, baquelita f Russian: бакели́т (ru) m (bakelít) Spanish: baquelita f Swedish: bakelit (sv) Thai: เบคิไลต์ Turkish: bakalit (tr)