GLOSSARY OF TERMS
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| A | | Actual | | Additive | | Alloy | | Amorphous | | Annealing | | Antifogging Agents | | Antioxidant | | Antistatic Agents | | Application | | Ask | | ASTM | | B | | Back Pressure | | Barrel | | Bear | | Bear market | | Bearish | | Bid | | Black Specks | | Bloom | | Blow Molding | | Blushing | | Breakaway gap | | Bulk Density | | Bull | | Bull market | | Bullish | | Buyer | | C | | Cash commodity | | Cash price | | Cash settlement | | CFTC | | Chartist | | Clearinghouse | | Coextrusion | | Color Concentrate | | Colorants | | Commitment | | Commodity | | Compound | | Compounding | | Compression Molding | | Contract | | Copolymer | | CoPP | | Core | | Corrosion Resistance | | Crate Grade | | Cross-linking | | Crystal |
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| Crystallinity | | Custom Molder | | D | | Delivery | | Demand | | Density | | Derivative | | Double top, bottom | | Downtrend | | Draft | | Drying | | E | | Ejection Pin | | Elastomer | | Electronic trading | | Engineering Plastics | | Exchange | | Extruder | | Extrusion | | F | | FAS | | FDA | | Filler | | Film | | Flame Retardant | | Flame Retardants | | Flash | | Forming | | Forward contract | | Fundamentalist | | Futures | | Futures contract | | G | | Gate | | Good-til-canceled (GTC) | | GPPS | | H | | HDPE | | Head and shoulders | | Hedge | | Hedger | | HIC | | HIPS | | Homopolymer | | HoPP | | I | | Impact Resistance | | Impact Strength | | Injection Molding | | ISO | | Izod Impact Strength | | K | | Knockout Pin |
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| L | | LDPE | | Liner Grade | | LLDPE | | Low Temperature Flexibility | | Lubricant Bloom | | M | | Material Safety Data Sheets | | Melt Index | | Melt Strength | | Minimum Specifications | | Modified Resins | | Modulus in Flexure | | Mold (n) | | Mold Release | | Molding Cycle | | Molecule | | Monomer | | Moving average chart | | Moving averages | | N | | Nozzle | | O | | Offer | | Open order | | Order | | OSHA | | Overbought | | Oversold | | P | | Pail Grade | | Pellets | | Performance bond | | Plastic | | Plasticize | | Plate-Out | | Polyblend | | Polybuthene Terephthalate | | Polycarbonate Resin | | Polymer | | Polymer Structure | | Polymerization | | Polyphenylene Oxide | | Polypropylene (PP) | | Polystyrene (PS) | | Price | | Price order | | Purging | | R | | Railcar | | Rally | | Regrind |
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| Resin | | Retracement | | Runner | | S | | Screw | | Seller | | Selling climax | | Shear Strength | | Sideways trend | | SPE | | Specific Gravity | | Speculator | | SPI | | Spot Market | | Spot Price | | Sprue | | Stabilizer | | Stiffness | | Stress-crack | | Structural Foam | | Supply | | Symmetrical triangles | | T | | Technical analysis | | Tensile Strength | | Thermoforming | | Thermoplastic Elastomers | | Thermoplastics | | Thermosets | | Tool | | Trader | | Trend | | Truckload | | U | | Up trend | | V | | Vacuum Forming | | Virgin Material | | Viscoelasticity | | Viscosity | | Volatility | | W | | Warpage | | Water Absorption | | Weathering | | Y | | Yellowness Index |
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