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acetal resin

noun

Definition of acetal resin

: polyoxymethylene Other outlets for methanol are still sluggish. Acetal resins, for example, are used in a variety of consumer hard goods that are now moving slowly.— Chemical Week, 25 June 1975

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1939, in the meaning defined above

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