Cling film is made from polyethylene.
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Polyethylene
Synonyms for "polyethylene" (5 found)
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41 translations across 32 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- polietileni noun (polyethylene)
Arabic
1 entries- بولي إثيلين noun (polyethylene)
Bulgarian
1 entries- полиетилен noun (polyethylene)
Catalan
2 entries- polietilè noun (polyethylene)
- politè noun (polyethylene)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 聚乙烯 noun (polyethylene)
Czech
3 entries- polyethylen noun (polyethylene)
- polyetylen noun (polyethylene)
- polyetylén noun (polyethylene)
Danish
1 entries- polyætylen noun (polyethylene)
Dutch
1 entries- polyetheen noun (polyethylene)
Finnish
1 entries- polyeteeni noun (polyethylene)
French
3 entries- polyméthylène noun (polyethylene)
- polyéthylène noun (polyethylene)
- polyéthène noun (polyethylene)
Galician
1 entries- polietileno noun (polyethylene)
German
3 entries- Plastik noun (polyethylene)
- Polyethylen noun (polyethylene)
- Polyäthylen noun (polyethylene)
Greek
1 entries- πολυαιθυλένιο noun (polyethylene)
Hebrew
1 entries- פוליאתילן noun (polyethylene)
Hungarian
1 entries- polietilén noun (polyethylene)
Italian
1 entries- polietilene noun (polyethylene)
Japanese
1 entries- ポリエチレン noun (polyethylene)
Latvian
1 entries- polietilēns noun (polyethylene)
Lithuanian
1 entries- polietilenas noun (polyethylene)
Malay
1 entries- polietilena noun (polyethylene)
Māori
1 entries- poritene noun (polyethylene)
Norwegian
2 entries- polyeten noun (polyethylene)
- polyetylen noun (polyethylene)
Polish
1 entries- polietylen noun (polyethylene)
Portuguese
1 entries- polietileno noun (polyethylene)
Romanian
1 entries- polietilenă noun (polyethylene)
Russian
1 entries- полиэтиле́н noun (polyethylene)
Slovak
1 entries- polyetylén noun (polyethylene)
Spanish
1 entries- polietileno noun (polyethylene)
Swedish
2 entries- polyeten noun (polyethylene)
- polyetylen noun (polyethylene)
Turkish
1 entries- polietilen noun (polyethylene)
Ukrainian
1 entries- поліетилен noun (polyethylene)
Vietnamese
1 entries- polyetylen noun (polyethylene)
Sample sentences
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The content of that polyethylene bottle is cloudy and yellowish. Could it be urine?
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Microbeads are tiny pieces of polyethylene plastic added to health and beauty products, such as some cleansers and toothpastes.
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For eons, the debris has contained the same things — flecks from plant and animal carcasses, feces, mucus, dust, microbes, viruses — and transported the ocean’s carbon to be stored on the seafloor. Increasingly, however, marine snowfall is being infiltrated by microplastics: fibers and fragments of polyamide, polyethylene and polyethylene terephthalate. And this fauxfall appears to be altering our planet’s ancient cooling process.
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