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Formica   Listen
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Formica  n.  A thermosetting plastic material composed of melamine resin, having good heat and chemical resistance, and commonly used as the surface layer in laminated sheets employed as coverings for counter tops, walls, or furniture.





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"Formica" Quotes from Famous Books



... given, and the workmen retire, as will appear on removing the soft freshly-built portion. We tried to sleep one rainy might in a native hut, but could not because of attacks by the fighting battalions of a very small species of formica, not more than one-sixteenth of an inch in length. It soon became obvious that they were under regular discipline, and even attempting to carry out the skilful plans and stratagems of some eminent ...
— A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries • David Livingstone


Words linked to "Formica" :   wood ant, Formica rufa, Formicidae, Formica sanguinea, plastic laminate, sanguinary ant, arthropod genus, genus Formica, Formica fusca, trademark


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