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resin

UK/ˈɹɛzɪn/US/ˈɹɛzɪn/
nounC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,101 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: resins

Resin is a sticky substance that sets hard and clear. Pine resin, cast in resin, epoxy resin.

Trees make it to seal wounds and it traps whatever touches it, which is how insects end up preserved in amber, fossilised resin millions of years old. Synthetic resins are the basis of most modern glues, castings and fibreglass.

André Karwath aka Aka · CC BY-SA 2.5

Definitions of resin

  1. 1nounresinA sticky substance that sets hard and clear.C1

    “She poured clear resin over the dried flowers to make a paperweight.”

resin is a substance.

Where it comes from

Latin resina names the substance, probably from a Greek word. Rosin is the same word by another route.

  1. Middle English

    resyn

  2. English, today

    resin

From Middle English resyn. From Middle English resyn, resyne, from Old French résine, from Latin resīna. a doublet of rosin.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Materials & Substances

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resin in the wild

  • A resin is a highly viscous liquid or solid that can be converted into a polymer.

    Resin

  • A resin identification code (RIC) is a symbol embedded on plastic products, used to sort plastic waste for recycling.

    Resin identification code

  • Heat is not necessarily applied externally, and is often generated by the reaction of the resin with a curing agent (catalyst, hardener).

    Thermosetting polymer

  • Pitch produced from petroleum may be called bitumen or asphalt, while plant-derived pitch, a resin, is known as rosin in its solid form.

    Pitch (resin)

  • Used as the basis for Bakelite, PFs were the first commercial synthetic resins.

    Phenol formaldehyde resin

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.