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Styrofoam

[ stahy-ruh-fohm ]

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Styrofoam

/ ˈstaɪrəˌfəʊm /

noun

C20: from polystyrene + foam

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Like Styrofoam packing peanuts, the fibers support the cell’s membranes and proteins, preventing them from breaking or unfolding.

Styrofoam is also used to make coolers, coffee cups and other containers that need to keep heat in or out.

Until now, companies have been hard-pressed to find a replacement for Styrofoam for protecting fragile items like electronics and appliances.

Before she goes, someone from the taco stand brings her a Styrofoam box filled with dinner.

Tokyo Bay is “a black expanse where gulls wheeled above drifting shoals of white Styrofoam.”

All meals are packed (abundantly) into Styrofoam containers and bagged with plastic utensils.

The man who kindly made my meal in less than three minutes opened the styrofoam container and pointed: “Only lemons.”

School-age children with rumbling tummies move their styrofoam trays in an orderly lunch line.

According to The Daily Mail, a 40-foot styrofoam replica of Westwood was supposed to be on view, but Wintour ruled against it.

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