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What is Thermoplastic

Handbook of Research on Environmental and Human Health Impacts of Plastic Pollution
Plastic substance formed by heating and harden by cooling, able to repeat the process.
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Association between Urinary Bisphenol A Concentration and Obesity Prevalence in Children and Adolescents: Bisphenol A and Its Effects on Humans
Sajad Hussain Mir (Kashmir University, India) and Attiya Baddar (University of Kashmir, India)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9452-9.ch012
Abstract
Bisphenol A is an organic compound that serves as a building block of polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins. Being the world's highest-volume chemicals in use today in the form of medical devices, water and infant bottles, food cans, kitchen utensils, water supply pipes, compact devices, etc., this compound—after gaining an access to the body of an individual by way of leaching into food and water supplies—acts as an obesogen and disrupts the body weight regulation by either promoting adipogenesis or triggering the differentiation of fibroblasts into adipocytes. The other adverse effects of bisphenol A include insulin resistance, adipocyte differentiation or aromatase-mediated transformation of androgen into estrogen, cardiovascular diseases, liver function abnormalities, alterations in the circulating thyroid hormone levels, association with diabetes and carcinogenic effect. Its other aspects on health individually as well as in combination with other chemicals are worth mentioning.
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Marine Plastic Debris: Distribution, Abundance, and Impact on Our Seafood
Plastic substance formed by heating and harden by cooling, able to repeat the process.
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Using 3D Printers to Engage Students in Research
The ability of a solid to repeatedly soften when heated and be reshaped, retaining that new shape as it cools and becomes hardens.
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