Is acrylic organic glass?Which is more expensive, acrylic or plexiglass?
Organic glass is an important heat, a development of earlier plastic, with transparency, chemical stability and good weathering resistance, easy to dye, easy processing, beautiful appearance, is widely used in the construction industry. The plexiglass product usually can be divided into casting plate, plastic extrusion board and the mold.Acrylic is much more expensive than plexiglass
Acrylic has high transparency, light transmission rate of 92%, a "plastic crystal" reputation. And has excellent weather resistance, especially in outdoor applications, among other plastic crown, and with good surface hardness and luster, processing and plasticity, can be made into various required shapes and other types of sheet products. There are rich colors (including the translucent shade guide), the other is characterized by thick still maintain a high level of transparency.
Acrylic board and plexiglass"Organic glass" from English Organic Glass. in recent years in some areas will be made of transparent plastic sheet all are called organic glass, actually this is wrong, it refers to pure acrylic polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) and the PMMA sheet material, called the acrylic plate.
Acrylic is English Acrylics, Acrylics is acrylic acid (ester) and methacrylic acid (ester) general class of chemicals. People often say that the acrylic sheet is polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) plate, which is composed of methyl methacrylate monomer (MMA) polymerization.
