Styrofoam cup timeline
Category: Outro
Atualizado: 8 out 2017
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Created byEmma Kushnerock
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In 1839, Eduard Simon,
a chemist in Germany,
discovered the material
known as styrol.Herman Staudinger
identified makeup of
styrol to be a
"chain-like molecule, and
the name of styrol then
became polystyrene.The term "styrofoam"
was trademarked by
Dow Chemical.Otis Ray McIntire invents
foam polystyrene, the
material from which
"styrofoam" cups are
actually made.Price and Houston use
McIntire's invention to file
for a patent for a drinking
vessel made from foam
polystyrene.
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