It's already marketing a polycarbonate for optical media like CD-ROMs that can shorten customers' production cycles.
At elevated temperatures, the BPA in polycarbonate will leach out over 50 times faster.
Unlike the sexy, metal HTC One, the Galaxy remains a polycarbonate, white or black plastic phone.
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And it's likely to be a pretty durable device, as its unibody frame is crafted of polycarbonate.
That review could result in the licensee being required to serve drinks in polycarbonate glassware at all times.
Gorilla Glass covers the front of the 8X and tapers slightly at the edges to blend into the colored polycarbonate.
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It has a unibody design crafted of white matte-finish polycarbonate, with chrome strips adorning the top and bottom of the device.
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The resourceful DIYer plans to keep working on his high-temperature system until he can build custom creations from Delrin and Polycarbonate.
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Whereas the old Transformer line was marked by its spun metal lids, this has a unibody polycarbonate lid, done up in white.
Other companies have crafted cases out of silicone, wood and hard polycarbonate.
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We are asking for all pubs in Worksop and Retford town centres to serve drinks in polycarbonate glasses on high days and holidays.
With faux-metal chrome sides and a polycarbonate back cover, the Note II offers a solid construction that's more durable than your typical device.
Once tested for possible use as an estrogen replacement, BPA was found to be of better use in the mass production of polycarbonate plastic.
If you felt its polycarbonate predecessor was a little unwieldy in dimensions or weight, you might be pleased with what Nokia's crafted here.
Unlike its big brother, though, the 8S isn't made from one block of polycarbonate, or if it is, it certainly isn't one piece now.
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The glass front is entirely flat, and sits flush with the polycarbonate casing -- unlike the slightly protruding, curved screen edges of the 8X.
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The Lumia 720 also marks the first time Nokia's added an expansion slot for microSD (up to 64GB) into one of its polycarbonate builds.
It has four fingers and a thumb made from various metals and plastics, and even has polycarbonate fingernails to help it prise things apart.
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Dual-shot adds a second layer of colored, transparent or translucent polycarbonate on top of a base layer to produce secondary color blends and depth effects.
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The pillow-like colored polycarbonate back is flat enough that the 8X is able to rest on a table without rocking back and forth when touched.
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Panasonic has also tweaked the hardware's polycarbonate-encased magnesium alloy chassis, with MIL-STD-810G1 ensuring that the gear will survive drops from six-feet, as well as IP651 weather-proofing.
As is the case with most WinPho upgrades, you'll have to plug the polycarbonate slab into Zune to pull down several new performance enhancements and features.
And because its edges are softly curved, your fingers will wrap comfortably around and rest on the screen which, itself, melds gently into the polycarbonate body.
Instead of being produced from all high-grade steel, most of The Guardian is produced in mostly forms of carbon fiber and thick polycarbonate as well as some steel.
The outer body of the EX-G1 is made from stainless steel to withstand external shocks while a polycarbonate cover absorbs shocks to the body side near the shutter.
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While the rest of the Lumia range have stuck to plastics -- typically glossy polycarbonate -- the Lumia 925 is Nokia's first Windows Phone to be packed into an aluminum frame.
Unlike the jump from the original PadFone to the PadFone 2, the latest generation ditches the polycarbonate body with the iconic zen pattern in favor of an aerospace-grade aluminum unibody.
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The waterproof inner body of the camera is made from polycarbonate reinforced with fiberglass while a buckle-lock construction is added to absorb impact, using fewer screws to secure the inner body.
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The finish is soft-touch plastic, and while it's not one piece of polycarbonate, Nokia's at least gone to some efforts to make it look slightly similar, and we're happy to play along.
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So I took out a motorcycle helmet made of fibreglass, with a polycarbonate visor that could take a double-barrel shogun from 10 paces - so I though it could withstand a cricket ball!
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