spunbond
spunbond noun: spunbonded fabric; a type of nonwoven fabric made by extruding continuous filaments directly from thermoplastic polymer chips, forming those filaments into a web, and then causing them to bond by the application of heat or (more rarely) a catalyst.
Noun
spunbond (countable and uncountable, plural spunbonds)
- Spunbonded fabric; a type of nonwoven fabric made by extruding continuous filaments directly from thermoplastic polymer chips, forming those filaments into a web, and then causing them to bond by the application of heat or (more rarely) a catalyst.
- The high strength of spunbonds is a dominant factor in such market applications as mailing envelopes, tags, and reinforcing media for lamination to weaker paper products.1975, Modern Plastics Encyclopedia, page 159
- On the whole the density of spunbond varies from 15 till 600 grams per square meter.2022, A. Slavgorodski, “Collecting and Drying Herbarium Samples Between Spunbond Sheets”, in Science and Practice, page 77
Forms of spunbond
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Questions about spunbond
- What does spunbond mean?
- Spunbond means spunbonded fabric; a type of nonwoven fabric made by extruding continuous filaments directly from thermoplastic polymer chips, forming those filaments into a web, and then causing them to bond by the application of heat or (more rarely) a catalyst.
- What part of speech is spunbond?
- Spunbond is a noun.
- What is the plural of spunbond?
- The plural of spunbond is spunbonds.
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