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Title: Boring resin question
Post by: frames to panes on March 20, 2008, 06:28:51 pm

What's it made of? Spilt a little on the kitchen laminate floor and the grains reflect in the dark - little golden balls of Dowex gleaming in the joints.

Title: Re: Boring resin question
Post by: alanwilson on March 20, 2008, 06:54:17 pm

they are polystyrene.

I think

Title: Re: Boring resin question
Post by: frames to panes on March 20, 2008, 08:43:07 pm

Really ???

Title: Re: Boring resin question
Post by: alanwilson on March 20, 2008, 08:43:58 pm

yeah

Title: Re: Boring resin question
Post by: frames to panes on March 20, 2008, 08:47:08 pm

they don't float  :-\

Title: Re: Boring resin question
Post by: alanwilson on March 20, 2008, 08:52:15 pm

polystyrene as you're probably thinking of it is aerated, this gives it its thermal insulating properties.  It also decreases the relative density of the polystyrene.

Think of it like bread which floats, squeeze all the air out of it and it sinks