Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. As the world attempts to return to a kind of normal in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, plexiglass ...

Plexiglass, the clear acrylic material that revolutionized modern architecture and design, was developed in the 1930s by German chemist Otto Röhm, who called his new invention Plexiglas. Over time, ...

How Are Plastic Bottles Made? Plastics are made from oil or natural gas, which are made of molecules called hydrocarbons. When you heat hydrocarbons to very high temperatures, they break down into ...