thermoplastic
Thermoplastics can be shaped easily by being cooled and heated time and time again. They suffer little degration by the heating and cooling. They are solid at room temp. Thermoset on the other hand cannot be repeatedly heated and cooled. if you try to re heat they become chared and do not re soften.
Basically there are two types of thermoplastic, thermoset and thermoform. Thermoset becomes hard when heated an example would be Bakelite. A thermoform plastic gets soft when heated and can be reformed. An example would be abs such as used in plastic pipe. Gil
Thermo
a plastic that has aids :)
thermosetting is atype of plastic which can't be recycled
Thermal setting plastic is a type of plastic that can be permanently shaped and hardened through the application of heat. Once heated and formed into a desired shape, thermal setting plastics cannot be reshaped again, unlike thermoplastics which can be melted and reshaped multiple times. Examples of thermal setting plastics include epoxy resins and phenolic resins.
Plastic forks and knives (Disposable utensils)
A thermosetting plastic, in contrast, can be melted and shaped only once. If it is then heated a second time, it tends to crack or disintegrate. Examples of thermosetting plastics (or just thermosets) include amino, epoxy, and phenolic and unsaturated polyesters.
Thermo Plastic was created on 1999-10-13.
They are used for making plastic's but the plastics they make aren't biograble
A thermoplastic (sometimes written as thermo plastic) is a type of plastic made from polymer resins that becomes a homogenized liquid when heated and hard when cooled. When frozen, however, a thermoplastic becomes glass-like and subject to fracture. These characteristics, which lend the material its name, are reversible. That is, it can be reheated, reshaped, and frozen repeatedly. This quality also makes thermoplastics recyclable.
thermo can be heated and manipulated unlited timed, but set can only be heated and manipulated once