epoxy resin

noun

: a flexible usually thermosetting resin made by copolymerization of an epoxide with another compound having two hydroxyl groups and used chiefly in coatings and adhesives

called also epoxy

Examples of epoxy resin in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Preserve Your Wedding Bouquet in Resin Create a unique paperweight with your florals with some help from epoxy resin. —Shelby Wax, Vogue, 1 Apr. 2024

These high-performance braking systems use a brake rotor made from a mixture of carbon, ceramics, epoxy resin, silicon carbide, and carbon fiber (the ingredients are baked together in a mold at high temperatures to form the rotor). —Michael Harley, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024

Pour a 1:1 mixture of epoxy resin and polyamine hardener into the rubber ice cube trays. —Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Dec. 2023

Diluted oil paint, watercolor, pastel, charcoal and epoxy resin flow spontaneously and unrelentingly across his colorful canvases that are spaces for learning and teaching. —Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024

Oil, acrylic medium, aqua resin, epoxy resin, on linen over panel 45 x 48 inches. —Stephanie Sporn, Vogue, 8 Feb. 2024

To make: Stir acrylic crafts paint into a 1:1 mixture of epoxy resin and polyamine hardener. —Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Dec. 2023

Researchers at Cooper Technologies Company in Houston, Texas, ran performance tests on over a dozen commercially available epoxy resin products in an effort to identify compositions that may be used to seal capacitor tanks. —IEEE Spectrum, 2 Feb. 2021

Filling the air pockets with a substance like epoxy resin that bends light to a similar degree to the cell walls renders the wood transparent. —Jude Coleman, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1950, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

epoxy resin

noun

: a synthetic resin used chiefly in coatings and adhesives