Viscosity
Extrusion
Thermoforming
Film Making/Coextrusion
Grab Bag
100

As temperature increases, viscosity reacts in this way.

What is decreases?

100

This is the chamber in which the screw turns and the plastic flows.

What is the barrel?

100

These types of polymers are typically used because they have a larger thermoforming window.

What is amorphous?

100

This is type of coextrusion process combines melt streams just before die exit.

What is multi-manifold?

100

This American road runs from Chicago to Los Angeles.

What is Route 66?

200

This type of viscous behavior is observed by polymers as shear rate is increased.

What is pseudoplastic/shear thinning?

200

The feed throat is usually cooled to avoid premature sticking of the polymer known as this.

What is bridging?

200

These are the 3 steps for thermoforming.

What are heating, forming and trimming?

200

This is the name of the extra thickness created on the edge of cast film.

What is an edge bead?

200

This battle between the U.S. and British effectively ended the Revolutionary War.

What is Yorktown?

300

For materials that exhibit a dilatant behavior, they have a linear behavior much like newtonian but have this difference that sets it apart.

What is overcome an initial yield?

300

This is what generates the heat within the extruder and melts the resin that is being conveyed through the system.

What is friction?

300

This type of thermoforming uses an additional structure that helps with bottom thickness when using a female mold.

What is plug assist?

300

Of cast & blown films, this film is usually more crystalline and hazy.

What is blown film?

300

Of the following movies (Jurassic Park, Hook, Raiders of the Lost Ark, or Jaws), this one was released in the 1980's.

What is Raiders of the Lost Ark?

400

This is the time required for a specfied mass of a polymer to flow through a specified capillary under controlled conditions of temperature and pressure.

What is melt index?

400

This is the area of the extruder where the majority of "melting" should occur.

What is the compression section?

400

This type of mold (positive or negative) requires a larger draft angle.

What is positive?

400

This cooling mechanism on a cast film line quenches the newly produced film on BOTH sides through CONDUCTIVE cooling.

What is a three roll stack?

400

What year did the comedy sketch TV show, “Saturday Night Live,” debut?

What is 1975?

500

Viscosity falls under this category of science that studies the deformation and the flow of matter.

What is rheology?

500

This part of the extruder provides the power and turns the screw.

What is the drive motor?

500

These are the 2 upper boundaries on the x and y axis for the operating window for thermoforming.

What are the max stress of the process/machine and the max strain/elongation of the thermoformed part?

500

This type of coextrusion mechanism is used when the materials have similar flow properties.

What is feed block?

500

How old was Queen Elizabeth II when she was crowned the Queen of England?

What is 27?

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