Thermoplastics plastics can be heated and then moulded into a shape or form, but thermosetting cannot. Each plastic can be moulded into a 'shape or form', it is just that thermoplastics, once they have been moulded, they can be re-heated and moulded again, where-as once thermosetting plastics have been moulded, if re-heated and you try to remould it, it will just make it brittle and snap instead.
If I remember rightly, thermoplastics are plastics that will bend when heated then cool and are able to be re-heated and reshaped again. Thermosetting plastics are only able to be shaped once. Heating changes the structures inside the plastic which cool and set where as thermoplastics react like steel, which although can be cold worked and hardened, has essentially the same plasticity in this respect (although clearly not the same hardness!).
the difference between thermosetting plastic and thermoplastic is thermosetting plastic is a plastic that can irreversibly cures the cure may be through heat) and thermoplastic is a type of plastic that can be vacuum formed.
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A thermoplastic can be remelted and reused, thermosetting plastics cannot.
thermoplastics can be melted and formed into new shapes while thermosetting plastics do not melt on being exposed to heat.
thermosetting plastic
Thermosetting plastics
It is a thermosetting polymer
Copper is not thermosetting - if you heat it up enough it will melt - nor is it plastic.
Acrylic is a thermoplastic
Polyester resin is a thermosetting resin, generally a copolymer
thermosetting is atype of plastic which can't be recycled
Thermoplastics are the only ones that can be recycled. Thermosets cannot be recycled.
It is a thermosetting plastic as it can be heated and moulded into a particular shape once but if you attempt to reheat it, it shall burn and disintegrate.
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.
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it is a thermo setting plastic if it is what you asked
Thermosetting plastics
It is a thermosetting polymer
Copper is not thermosetting - if you heat it up enough it will melt - nor is it plastic.
the opposite to thermosetting plastic is thermoplastic
Thermoplastics can be repeatedly softened by heating and hardened by cooling. Thermosetting plastics, however, harden permanently after being heated once. An example of thermoplastic is polypropylene (PP - recycling number 5). An example of thermosetting plastic is polyurathane (PU).