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Bakelite

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Bakelite /ˈbeɪk(ə)lʌɪt/

▶noun trademark an early brittle form of plastic made from formaldehyde and phenol.

– origin early 20th cent.: named after Leo H. Baekeland, the Belgian-born American chemist who invented it, + -ite1.

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