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  • noun Plural form of polystyrene.

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Examples

  • In case you may not have known, this is the same Total, parent of Total Petrochemicals USA Inc., with production facilities in Louisiana and Texas producing a range of base chemicals including polyethylene, polystyrenes.

    Raymond J. Learsy: The Oil Nabobs Slouching Towards Iran. Time For A Peoples Boycott 2010

  • In case you may not have known, this is the same Total, parent of Total Petrochemicals USA Inc., with production facilities in Louisiana and Texas producing a range of base chemicals including polyethylene, polystyrenes.

    Raymond J. Learsy: The Oil Nabobs Slouching Towards Iran. Time For A Peoples Boycott 2010

  • Surrounded by the plastics, polystyrenes, and chemicals of the modern workplace, our bodies have an instinctual memory of something more natural.

    The Tyranny of E-mail John Freeman 2009

  • "The fact that articles made from this new Ingeo grade are more heat resistant than say, polypropylene or the general purpose polystyrenes, means that it's an opportunity for the manufacturers to now go and innovate with this low carbon footprint material,"

    CosmeticsDesign RSS 2010

  • We know them mainly in the form of polythenes, polyolefins, polystyrenes, nylons and acrylics.

    unknown title 2009

  • We know them mainly in the form of polythenes, polyolefins, polystyrenes, nylons and acrylics.

    AvaxHome RSS: 2008

  • He got up from my bed, grabbed his own magazine, and plodded down the stairs, back toward his study to read about new developments in polystyrenes while listening to Coltrane’s Giant Steps.

    The Beautiful Miscellaneous Dominic Smith 2007

  • He got up from my bed, grabbed his own magazine, and plodded down the stairs, back toward his study to read about new developments in polystyrenes while listening to Coltrane’s Giant Steps.

    The Beautiful Miscellaneous Dominic Smith 2007

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