Their son, who is five, led everyone to the family room, opened the deep drawers of a reproduction Colonial bureau, and showed off his toys dinosaurs, jumbled together, snout upon tail, in a plastic mass grave.

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Ibiden began mass producing plastic microprocessor packages in 1996.

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Ibiden began mass- producing plastic microprocessor packages in 1996.

FORBES: It's all in the packaging

Search and rescue teams continued their desperate efforts at Plaza Towers Elementary, where the storm ripped off the school's roof, knocked down walls and turned the playground into a mass of twisted plastic and metal as students and teachers huddled in hallways and bathrooms.

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Once tested for possible use as an estrogen replacement, BPA was found to be of better use in the mass production of polycarbonate plastic.

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It was a teaspoon of water in a test tube, not a mass of silicon, metal and plastic.

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Vuvuzela-makers say they began to mass-produce the instrument in plastic when the original tin version began to make appearances at games during the 1990s.

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Listeria monocytogenes, for example, is a microbe that actually grows happily at refrigerator temperatures and is thus delighted with the new popularity of mass-produced foods that sit on refrigerator shelves in tidy plastic cartons.

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If this can move into mass production, we may start seeing products that were previously made of plastic be made of metal glass instead.

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ADM's new plastic, backed by 130 issued or pending patents, comes from tiny biotech Metabolix of Cambridge, Mass.

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