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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

plastificar

Pronunciation / Transliteration: plas-ti-fi-kar

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Plasticize/ˈplæs.tɪ.saɪz/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Vou plastificar este crachá de identificação."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To make a material plastic or flexible, typically by adding a plasticizer.

    "Manufacturers add specific chemical agents to the compound to plasticize it for injection molding."
  2. 2

    To coat or laminate an object with a thin layer of plastic.

    "They decided to plasticize the important documents to protect them from moisture and wear."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the English noun 'plastic' (ultimately from Greek 'plastikos', meaning capable of being molded) combined with the verbal suffix '-ize'. Emerging in the late 19th century alongside the birth of modern polymer chemistry, the term initially described making substances plastic or flexible, later specializing in the industrial application of plasticizers to synthetic materials.

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