What's the difference between acrylic and plexiglas?
Acrylic
Definition:
(a.) Of or containing acryl, the hypothetical radical of which acrolein is the hydride; as, acrylic acid.
Example Sentences:
(1) The teeth were embedded in phenolic rings with acrylic resin.
(2) In this study, a technique is described by which large obturators can be retained with an acrylic resin head plate.
(3) Eight macerated human child skulls with a dental age of approximately 9.5 years (mixed dentition) were consecutively subjected to an experimental standardized high-pull headgear traction system attached to the maxilla at the first permanent molar area via an immovable acrylic resin splint covering all teeth.
(4) They were an order of magnitude larger for poly(acrylic acid) due to the lack of cationic groups.
(5) By embedding the biopsy in the acrylic resin LR White, unsupported sections of which are stable in the electron beam, light and electron microscopy and immunocytochemistry become feasible on sections from the same block.
(6) One must pay attention to the setting expansion of plasters and to the setting contraction of acrylic resins which may be very important if these materials are used without care.
(7) This study suggests that glass fibers can be pretreated with a silane coupling agent to obtain a chemical bond between the fibers and the acrylic resin.
(8) For comparison, the same characteristics of currently used 20% water-soap benzylbenzoate emulsion and of the new ointment base, SAKAP (acryl copolymer), have been examined.
(9) The medium-viscosity polyvinylsiloxane impression material showed significantly higher adhesive bond strength to polystyrene than autopolymerizing acrylic resin whereas polysulfide and condensation silicone impression materials adhered significantly better to autopolymerizing acrylic resin than polystyrene.
(10) To support this, a small study on dentate subjects suggests the covering of the palatal mucosa with an acrylic plate does not affect masticatory performance.
(11) Use of a vacuum device on the mixed acrylic resin works as well as pressure polymerizing.
(12) Total joint arthroplasties with metal, plastic, and acrylic materials have revolutionized the surgical treatment of arthritis.
(13) The polyacrylate fraction, as well as glucose and acrylate, are removed and mineralized to CO2.
(14) The effect of nine different designs on the strength of acrylic resin attachment to the partial denture framework in anterior endentulous spaces was tested.
(15) Initially the release of chlorhexidine acetate from cold cured acrylic strips into water, was measured spectrophotometrically over a 15 day period.
(16) In attempt to standardize an experimental model for biomechanical studies of unstable trochanteric fractures, acrylic models of the proximal femur were investigated by the photoelastic technique.
(17) All bridges were made of type-3 casting gold and heat-cured acrylic veneering.
(18) The acrylic acid polymer showed a longer GI transit time than the methacrylic acid polymer, and this in vivo GI transit result is consistent with in vitro bioadhesion test results.
(19) Many of the acrylic resin and bent-wire temporary partial dentures in use today produce pathologic changes in the oral mucosa.
(20) Results of in vivo metabolism studies with acrylic acid (AA) have indicated that 60-80% of the administered dose is excreted as CO2 within 2-8 hr of oral dosing of rats; however, the pathway of AA metabolism to CO2 in mammals has not been determined.
Plexiglas
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) 7 right-handed male university students stood behind a large Plexiglas screen and spatially matched a ball projected over a distance of 20 feet.
(2) With the use of a guide box of plexiglas screwed into a trephine of the calvarium, several thermocouples could be inserted at various depths into the brain at the same time.2.
(3) Measurements conducted in plexiglas, animal muscle, kidney and brain concur with tabulated values and show a scatter from 5-15 percent from the mean; measurements made in perfused muscle and brain compare well with the nonperfused values.
(4) Cholinomimetic and adrenomimetic substances were tested on the chemosensitive zones of the ventral surface of the medulla oblongata using a plexiglas ring method.
(5) The ventricle is placed in an airtight Plexiglas cylinder and the pump alternately pressurizes and depressurizes the cylinder, driving fluid in and out of the ventricle.
(6) A cranial plexiglas window was chronically inserted in the skull with dental cement under general anesthesia.
(7) Aluminum targets and Plexiglas holders for the sensor were attached to the bow of the rubber dam clamp with light-activated composite resin.
(8) Evaluations on a tomographic phantom, on a Plexiglas head and neck phantom, and in patients with posteriorly wired cervical spine fusion reveal that in most cases better detail of the fusion site can be obtained with linear-motion tomography than with complex-motion tomography.
(9) Structural investigation included stereomicroscopic examination of surface-stained tissue blocks and graphic reconstruction of serial sections by using both computer-generated and Plexiglas models.
(10) In this perifusion system, dispersed rat pituitary cells were loaded onto Biogel P-2 (P-2) beads in a 0.5-ml plexiglas chamber and were submerged in a 37 degrees C water bath.
(11) Anesthestized chinchilla with round window electrodes were placed in a Plexiglas chamber.
(12) We compared the efficacy of ozonation, UV light, hyperchlorination, and heat eradication using a model plumbing system constructed of copper piping, brass spigots, Plexiglas reservoir, electric hot water tank, and a pump.
(13) In three separate experiments groups of rats were chronically administered neuroleptics in a variety of ways (chronic injections, subcutaneous implants, and decanoate injections) and examined for oral movements (OMs) in two different tests: in an open cage using a human observer, or in a plexiglas tube enclosure, where OMs were monitored both by a human observer and computerized video analysis system.
(14) Polystyrene embedments of histological specimens can be obtained with a solution of 1:14 polystyrene-toluene, 5% benzyl alcohol and 1% dibutyl phthalate, allowing the solvent to evaporate in polyethylene containers for 2-3 days at 58 C. The resulting blocks are easily cut into truncated pyramids, each containing a piece of tissue, which are then glued to a Plexiglas support.
(15) A large model of one aortointercostal junction was made from Plexiglas to show that bundles of elastin appeared to be continuous from the aorta into the branch.
(16) Male, weanling Fischer-344 rats were exposed to clean air or solvents in four identical 62.5 l Plexiglas chambers.
(17) The phantom consists of four 57Co-point sources mounted on a Plexiglas base at corners of a square 10 cm on each side.
(18) Flow visualization studies were conducted in a water-Plexiglas tube model which simulated flow conditions commonly encountered in major vessels.
(19) In a second study the rat's body, excluding the cremaster, was enclosed in an airtight Plexiglas box.
(20) Goya turned the buyer down and had Plexiglas placed over the Japanese-themed image of a man and a woman crossing an arched bridge.