PMMA

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.

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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).

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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

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).

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

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