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  • initialism organic chemistry polymethyl methacrylate

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Examples

  • B.C.'s provincial health officer said Thursday officials are concerned "without hesitation" over the finding that paramethoxymethamphetamine - a synthetic compound known as PMMA - has been discovered laced into already dangerous drugs in the two provinces.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed TAMSYN BURGMANN 2012

  • Special formulations of colored PMMA exist to allow specific IR wavelengths to pass while blocking visible light (for remote control or heat sensor applications, for example).

    Minority Report PC Becomes Reality 2007

  • Synthetic materials are silicone, calcium hydroxylapatite, poly-L-lactic acid, and polymethylmethacrylate PMMA.

    Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009

  • Synthetic materials are silicone, calcium hydroxylapatite, poly-L-lactic acid, and polymethylmethacrylate PMMA.

    Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009

  • Synthetic materials are silicone, calcium hydroxylapatite, poly-L-lactic acid, and polymethylmethacrylate PMMA.

    Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009

  • PMMA allows infrared light of up to 2800 nm wavelength to pass.

    Minority Report PC Becomes Reality 2007

  • By 2002 the Zimmer Corporation was using PMMA to service the orthopedic market and giving five hundred thousand dollars to the education and outreach program of the American Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Society.

    American Connections James Burke 2007

  • Modern Lichtenberg Figures can also be created within solid blocks of acrylic plastic (polymethyl methacrylate or PMMA) using a beam of electrons from a linear electron beam accelerator (or Linac, a type of particle accelerator).

    Lichtenberg Figures 2007

  • Modern Lichtenberg Figures can also be created within solid blocks of acrylic plastic (polymethyl methacrylate or PMMA) using a beam of electrons from a linear electron beam accelerator (or Linac, a type of particle accelerator).

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • Later, in 1920, Rohm returned to the subject of his German doctorate (acrylic chemistry) and developed polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA).

    American Connections James Burke 2007

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