How to Use epoxy resin in a Sentence

epoxy resin

noun
  • Then casts were made of epoxy resin and left to dry for 48 hours.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 Feb. 2023
  • An epoxy resin form must be built to contain the table pieces and poured epoxy.
    Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2018
  • It’s made from epoxy resin, has four detachable fins and.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Han’s pieces hold worlds, of cut paper and paint trapped beneath a floating sheen of epoxy resin.
    BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The rest of the project is made of clay, and then it is coated in epoxy resin for the exterior, with the final coat being bronze.
    Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Reseal with epoxy resin rolled and brushed over the hull as smoothly as possible.
    Andy Cochrane, Popular Mechanics, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Set several layers of fiberglass tape in epoxy resin over the top.
    Andy Cochrane, Popular Mechanics, 2 Sep. 2021
  • It's made of epoxy resin and has 10 different LED color options.
    Cailey Lindberg, Good Housekeeping, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Each piece is made using a mix of burlwood and epoxy resin that’s naturally tough.
    Mike Richard, Men's Health, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Broken pieces are mended with adhesive and gaps are filled in with plaster or epoxy resin.
    Hans-Dieter Sues, Smithsonian, 3 Sep. 2019
  • His Cellular chair is 3-D-printed as one big piece of porous epoxy resin; one version is then cast in bronze.
    Helena Madden, Robb Report, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Filling the air pockets with a substance like epoxy resin that bends light to a similar degree to the cell walls renders the wood transparent.
    Jude Coleman, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Original bone material comprises just over 50 percent of the skeleton—the rest is made from plaster and epoxy resin casts, writes the AFP.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The workers are gluing the broken pieces together like a massive prehistoric puzzle, filling cracks in the bones with epoxy resin.
    Zachary Small, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2022
  • When coated with a special epoxy resin, the carbon-fiber material becomes rigid like aluminum, the main sheeting on jets.
    Dennis Hohenberger, Courant Community, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Your bathtub refinishing kit will come with two items that need combining at this stage: an epoxy resin and a hardener.
    Alyssa Longobucco, House Beautiful, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Enlarge / Cut sections of bone in epoxy resin on glass balls for X-ray fluorescence analysis. M.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Most of their bulk comes from blocks of syntactic foam—a buoyant, crush-resistant material made of glass microspheres in epoxy resin—that are padded around the frame.
    Susan Casey, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023
  • If the casual skater probably starts on Rollerblades, the entry drug to speed skating is often the Bont Jet, a short boot built of carbon and fiberglass hand-shaped around memory foam and epoxy resin.
    Corey Seymour, Vogue, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Their epoxy resin forms even resemble human lung and brain tissue to test how radiation passes through the human body.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Metal food and beverage cans are lined with an epoxy resin coating made from a family of chemicals called bisphenols.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 17 Aug. 2020
  • Their approach was to embed a fragment of each object’s patina in a block of epoxy resin, in order to preserve its physical structure, and then to slice the block up using a diamond saw.
    The Economist, 4 July 2019
  • The rings are each designed from different materials — for example, The Frodo contains moss trapped in epoxy resin.
    Leto Sapunar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Dec. 2022
  • In the Panther, though, the roof section, the B-pillars, and the door frames are molded from a composite sandwich of epoxy resin, aluminum honeycomb, and glass cloth and bonded to the metal chassis; carbon fiber is used in the A-pillars.
    Ray Hutton, Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2023
  • For both the dress rehearsal and the final reassembly, the conservators will hold the fragments in place by circling them with snug-fitting collars made of carbon fiber cloth layered with epoxy resin, to which straps can be attached.
    Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 17 Dec. 2017
  • Using several layers of epoxy resin, astronauts inside the space station patched the slow leak—from a small hole a few millimeters across—a day after its detection.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2018
  • Chief Executive Michael McGarry said the company has been hurt by rising costs for epoxy resin and higher oil prices, in addition to higher freight costs.
    Maria Armental, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2018
  • In the fabrication process for composites, carbon fiber tape impregnated with epoxy resin is laid on a mold, then hardened in a high-pressure oven called an autoclave.
    Dominic Gates, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Nov. 2021
  • Health officials say chemicals in epoxy resin can cause skin irritation and asthma.
    Dennis Romero, NBC News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Sheltering behind one of the boulders, Hoffmeister killed time by reading an e-book, taking pictures, snacking on oats and pasta, and patching her beaten up kayak and paddle with fiberglass and epoxy resin.
    Will Egensteiner, Outside Online, 14 May 2015

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