urethane
noun
ure·thane
ˈyu̇r-ə-ˌthān 
variants
or less commonly urethan
1
a
: a crystalline compound C3H7NO2 that is the ethyl ester of carbamic acid and is used especially as a solvent and medicinally as an antineoplastic agent
b
: an ester of carbamic acid other than the ethyl ester
2
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They were remolded into clear urethane, inserted into her fiberglass understructure, and painted.
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
It's then dissolved to create a urethane silicon mold, and that's used to cast the concrete.
—New Atlas, 19 Sep. 2024
Comprised of nearly twenty urethane resin pours, the 50-inch ultra-thin disc—mounted vertically atop an almost imperceptible translucent pedestal—appeared to be floating.
—Tara Anne Dalbow, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2024
No, those urethane and resin casts had long since been polished to perfection and photographed; this was for yet another impending project, the details of which were still too early to publish.
—Tara Anne Dalbow, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2024
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
It's then dissolved to create a urethane silicon mold, and that's used to cast the concrete.
—New Atlas, 19 Sep. 2024
Comprised of nearly twenty urethane resin pours, the 50-inch ultra-thin disc—mounted vertically atop an almost imperceptible translucent pedestal—appeared to be floating.
—Tara Anne Dalbow, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2024
No, those urethane and resin casts had long since been polished to perfection and photographed; this was for yet another impending project, the details of which were still too early to publish.
—Tara Anne Dalbow, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2024
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urethane
noun
ure·thane
ˈyu̇r-ə-ˌthān
variants
or urethan
1
: a crystalline compound C3H7NO2 that is the ethyl ester of carbamic acid and is used especially as a solvent and in anesthetizing laboratory animals
called also ethyl carbamate
2
: an ester of carbamic acid other than the ethyl ester
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