Word: resinous
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Coast petrochemical strip from Texas to Louisiana. Last October, 23 employees died and 130 were injured when explosions sent 100-ft. walls of flame through a Phillips Petroleum plastics plant in nearby Pasadena. At the same plant on June 8, eight workers were hospitalized after a fire in a resin-producing unit. That same day explosions severely damaged the 886-ft. oil tanker Mega Borg, spewing a 30-mile-long slick off the Texas coast. Early last week traffic was halted on the busy Houston ship channel while firemen struggled to contain a roaring oil fire that shot flames more...
...solid "disk" wheels made of Kevlar improved matters but were somewhat hard to control in crosswinds. A solution came early this year from Specialized Bicycle Components of Morgan Hill, Calif.: a three-spoke wheel developed with Du Pont. Specialized's wheel, a composite of carbon fiber, epoxy resin, Kevlar and aluminum, has an air-foil shape, and was designed with a Cray supercomputer. Tests proved the wheels are faster and more durable than traditional ones...
Equa Chair. This handsome office chair, created by Bill Stumpf and Don Chadwick for the manufacturer Herman Miller, comprises two structural innovations: the backbone is an ingeniously cut single piece of springy glass- reinforced polyester resin, and a special knee-tilt mechanism lets the sitter lean back without whipping his feet off the floor...