spunbond

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noun

Spunbonded fabric; a type of nonwoven fabric made by extruding continuous filaments directly from thermoplastic polymer chips, forming those filaments into a web, and then causing them to bond by the application of heat or (more rarely) a catalyst.

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nounspunbond (countable and uncountable, plural spunbonds)

plural spunbonds

  1. countableuncountableSpunbonded fabric; a type of nonwoven fabric made by extruding continuous filaments directly from thermoplastic polymer chips, forming those filaments into a web, and then causing them to bond by the application of heat or (more rarely) a catalyst.

    On the whole the density of spunbond varies from 15 till 600 grams per square meter.

    2022, A. Slavgorodski, “Collecting and Drying Herbarium Samples Between Spunbond Sheets”, in Science and Practice, page 77
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    The high strength of spunbonds is a dominant factor in such market applications as mailing envelopes, tags, and reinforcing media for lamination to weaker paper products.

    1975, Modern Plastics Encyclopedia, page 159

    Civil engineering remains a large market segment for spunbonds accounting for over 25% of the total sales.

    2022, S. J. Russell, Handbook of Nonwovens, page 246
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