What is the difference between plastic and acrylic?

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Below I've written out the terminology of what is acrylic and what is plastic for you to see ah. The point to be made here is that there is definitely a difference between acrylic and plastic. But in real life, many people are prone to acrylic and plastic mixed into one altar. Acrylic is plexiglass, acrylic sheet according to the production process can be divided into casting type and extrusion type, casting type of sheet performance than extrusion type is better, the price is also more expensive, casting type of sheet is mainly used for carving, decorative, handicrafts production, extrusion type is usually used for advertising signboards, light boxes and other production. Plastic is a monomer as raw material, through polymerization or polycondensation reaction polymerization of polymer compounds (macromolecules), commonly known as plastic (plastics) or resin (resin), can be free to change the composition and shape of the style, by the synthetic resins and fillers, plasticizers, stabilizers, lubricants, colors and other additives. The main component of plastic is resin. The term resin was originally named after the lipids secreted by plants and animals, such as rosin and wormwood, etc. Resin is a polymer compound that has not yet been mixed with various additives. Resin accounts for about 40% to 100% of the total weight of plastic. The basic properties of plastics are mainly determined by the nature of the resin, but additives also play an important role. Some plastics are basically composed of synthetic resins and contain no or few additives, such as plexiglass and polystyrene. The so-called plastic, in fact, it is one of the synthetic resins, the shape is similar to the natural resin in the pine resin, after the chemical means of artificial synthesis, and is called plastic. Let's see what kind of acrylic is! Look at the material around the edge If the leather edge, not scratching. In the corner of the material to tear a little paper mold, and then look at the light or lamp, it is very obvious. The surface of the paper mold is not damaged, generally recently produced new material board, the paper mold is very firmly affixed.

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