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Synthetica: A New Continent of Plastics

Category: Links to interesting sites and discussion of themNatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
Posted on: January 18, 2008 8:12 AM, by Benjamin Cohen

"On this broad but synthetic continent of plastics, the countries march right out of the natural world - that wild area of firs and rubber plantations, upper left - into the illimitable world of the molecule. It's a world boxed only by the cardinal points of the chemical compass - carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen."

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This is from Fortune, 1940 (I found it here and here.) Click on the map for a larger view to find that Rayon "is a plastic island off the Cellulose coast, with a glittering night life."

No doubt. Better snatch up a beachside condo before the mortgage rates get even worse.

(This one's for J.A.R.)

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Not to long and this is going to look like a map of the North Pacific.

Posted by: Jeff | January 18, 2008 9:29 AM

I wonder if Cast Phenolic fields a team for the Olympics and if so how do they pass the dope tests?

Posted by: Dollinger | January 18, 2008 9:33 AM

Phenolic Fields forever...

Posted by: thomas robey | January 19, 2008 2:45 AM

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