No one refilling a water glass or delivering plates.
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Ryan Brennan,
Miami Herald,
12 Mar. 2026
These marks are common and hard to avoid—McAllister says they can be caused by anything from a water glass without a coaster to a warm pizza box that’s just been delivered.
The stadium is in the midst of a five-year, $60 million improvement plan that already has resulted in a new roof over the event space and suites, upgraded locker rooms for UConn and visiting teams and spruced up restrooms along the concourse that include epoxy resin coatings on the floors.
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Kenneth R. Gosselin,
Hartford Courant,
7 June 2026
As with the Apollo spacecraft, Orion’s heat shield is made principally of a material known as Avcoat, a combination of epoxy resin and silica fibers, designed to absorb the fires of reentry and slowly burn off, or ablate, carrying the reentry heat away from the capsule and crew.
Reinforcing materials are then deposited, including thermoplastic carbon-fiber acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) for lightweight strength or thermoset resins like epoxy for greater stiffness and durability.
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Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
16 June 2026
Smaller cracks can be repaired with epoxy glue, but even that is only a temporary fix.
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