After enhancing its reactivity, cardanol is chemically bonded with cellulose, which produces a durable thermo-plastic that is strong, heat resistant, water resistant and non-crystalline (short molding time), due to the bonded cardanol's unique molecular structure consisting of flexible and rigid parts.

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Finding ways to dispel this immense heat requires expensive cooling systems and more expensive heat-resistant solar materials.

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Where it's still legal, asbestos - heat-resistant and insulating - has myriad uses.

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Slow-motion replays suggested that the object might have been a heat-resistant tile protecting a compartment where the shuttle's drag chute is stored.

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Dr Bermel's proposed trap is a thin sheet of tungsten (a heat-resistant metal) that has been processed in quite a complicated way.

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He says North Korea is years away from developing a nuclear warhead that would be small, light and heat-resistant enough to launch on a missile.

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"The holy grail is a heat-resistant varietal that provides quality coffee, " says Patrick Criteser, chief executive of Coffee Bean International, which supplies the private-label coffees to such retailers as Target and Kroger and is part of World Coffee Research.

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