fiberglass

IPA: fˈaɪbɝgɫæs

(American spelling) Alternative form of fibreglass [Silica based glass extruded into fibers that possess a length at least 1000 times greater than their width.]

Examples of "fiberglass" in Sentences

In order to address the problem, officials have started encasing the signs in fiberglass, but people in Georgia have shotguns.
I knew that they would find the right boat, this time in fiberglass, to succeed the old wooden boat they had wearied of maintaining.
The polymer handle, reinforced with fiberglass, is stronger and lighter than traditional wooden handles, and is molded around the axe head.
The show mainly consists of sculptural pieces – be it wall-bound relief, free-standing and/or suspended? done in fiberglass, silicone and/or plastic.
Perhaps fiberglass is not as brittle as reinforced carbon-carbon (preventing a fracturing of the hull of Orion, a la the holing of the RCC on Columbia).
This membrane of translucent fiberglass is made of a series of parallel and perpendicular continuous stripes, as if they had been sliced in two directions.
The blend is then mixed with glass pigments to produce the brilliant colors; then it is covered in fiberglass and cools down to a smooth crystalline finish.
Its always nice to read well meaning NONSENSE such as that posted above by “Blue Jeans Baby » Comfortable Castle – Improving your home » Blog Archive” as they perpetuate the FALSE MYTH that fiberglass is carcinogenic.