# Origin and Synthesis of Plastics Materials

Shows the organic origins of plastics and natural substances; synthesis of plastics from natural substances; differences between thermosetting and thermoplastic materials; compounding platics to provide desired properties in products forms in which plastics are produced and typical plastics products.

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1945
- By: U.S. Office of Education
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/4097_Origin_and_Synthesis_of_Plastics_Materials)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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