Hmm, this sounds like you what you call polystyrene is what we in the US call styrofoam (it's white, made of little balls, light, stiff, breaks and crumbles fairly easily, and is used as packing material), and what you call polystyrene is similar to what we call ethafoam (ours is white, not blue, but made of some sort of plasticky stuff with lots of bubbles in it, doesn't crumble, and is somewhat elastic). I wonder why the names are different like that.
Weronika On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Jenny Hester wrote: > Just had to delurk to correct the impression that Styrofoam is the stuff > that comes as packing material. Here in the UK polystyrene is used as > packing material and Styrofoam is the building material which is blue. It > is manufactured in a completely different way as it is extruded into sheet > form so is like bubble bath foam with lots of minute airbubbles in it > construction. Polystyrene on the other hand is lots of balls compressed > together which is why it comes apart so easily. Try breaking a piece of > Styrofoam and it's hard to do. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
