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If you pull a vacuum on wood, then impregnate it with a monomer, and then irradiate it with gamma rays, you get a wood-plastic composite that is extremely tough while looking great. If it gets scuffed, you just buff it out, the finish goes all the way through. www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9sQ...

youtube.comAtomic Revolution in Wood (1969)YouTube video by What is Nuclear?

16/5/26, 11:47 pm0 reposts8 likes

Nick Touran

@whatisnuclear.com

16 May

This is a 1969 AEC film describing the material, commercial applications, and the production process. (Title: "Atomic Revolution in Wood", AVN0481, Digitized by the IAEA's Lise Meitner Library. AVN0481) 📽️⚛️

Hephaestus

@thinkingsideways.bsky.social

18 June

Are you aware of anyone who commercialized this material?