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polypropylene
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polypropylene /poly·pro·py·lene/ (pol″e-pro´pĭ-lēn) a synthetic, crystalline, thermoplastic polymer with a molecular weight of 40,000 or more and the general formula (C3H5)n; uses include nonabsorbable sutures, surgical casts, and the membranes for membrane oxygenators.
polypropylene
a polyolefin available in monofilament form and used as a nonabsorbable surgical suture. Very popular as a vascular suture material. Like most synthetics it has poor knot security but it causes little tissue reaction and has very long life. It is also available in mesh form.
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It consists of an injection moulded pallet base and lid, with extruded polypropylene sleeve sides, which collapse for storage and return transport.
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This is "mainly because of the strength of packaging markets, particularly for injection-molded and extruded polypropylene and ongoing growth in the PET bottle and sheet sector," AMI writes in the release.
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For example, G'Sell and his co-workers (3) have proposed a four-parameter constitutive equation based on tensile test results of round extruded polypropylene specimens.
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