styrofoam

English

Etymology

From the trademark Styrofoam

Noun

styrofoam (countable and uncountable, plural styrofoams)

1. Expanded polystyrene foam, such as is used in cups and packaging.
   • 1988 November 4, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     A while ago I read your column concerning the effects of hot tea on styrofoam cups.

   • 2013 May-June, Kevin Heng, “Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 184:

     In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter. Their densities range from that of styrofoam to iron.

   • 2018 August 9, Gerald Porter Jr., Corinne Ramey, “Industry-Backed Group Keeps Fighting Foam Ban”, in The Wall Street Journal:

     Expanded polystyrene foam—commonly, although incorrectly, called Styrofoam—has been the subject of a protracted battle between New York City officials and large industry players, particularly Dart.

Translations

polymer

• Armenian: փրփրապլաստ (hy) (pʻrpʻraplast)
• Catalan: porexpan m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 發泡膠／发泡胶 (zh) (fāpàojiāo), 发泡胶 (zh) (fāpàojiāo), 保麗龍／保丽龙 (zh) (bǎolìlóng), 保丽龙 (zh) (baǒlìlóng)

• Dutch: piepschuim (nl) n
• Finnish: styroksi
• French: polystyrène (fr) m, (Quebec) styromousse (fr) m, polystyrène expansé (fr) m, frigolite (fr) f
• German: Styropor (de) n, Polystyrol n
• Greek: φελιζόλ (el) n (felizól)
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• Hungarian: hungarocell
• Icelandic: frauðplast (is) n
• Italian: polistirolo espanso m, polistirene m
• Japanese: 発泡スチロール (happō-suchirōru)
• Polish: styropian (pl) m
• Portuguese: (Portugal) esferovite (pt), (Brazil) isopor (pt) m
• Russian: пенопла́ст (ru) m (penoplást), пенополистиро́л (ru) m (penopolistiról)
• Spanish: poliestireno expandido m (formal), poliestireno extruido m (formal), telgopor m (Argentina),unicel (es) m (Mexico),anime (es) m (Venezuela), extrusionado m,extrudido (es) m
• Swedish: frigolit (sv) c, cellplast (sv) c, skumplast (sv) c

See also

• styrofoam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia