How to Use epoxy resin in a Sentence

epoxy resin

noun
  • Then casts were made of epoxy resin and left to dry for 48 hours.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 Feb. 2023
  • An epoxy resin form must be built to contain the table pieces and poured epoxy.
    — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Set several layers of fiberglass tape in epoxy resin over the top.
    — Andy Cochrane, Popular Mechanics, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Reseal with epoxy resin rolled and brushed over the hull as smoothly as possible.
    — Andy Cochrane, Popular Mechanics, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Broken pieces are mended with adhesive and gaps are filled in with plaster or epoxy resin.
    — Hans-Dieter Sues, Smithsonian, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Each piece is made using a mix of burlwood and epoxy resin that’s naturally tough.
    — Mike Richard, Men's Health, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Oil, acrylic medium, aqua resin, epoxy resin, on linen over panel 45 x 48 inches.
    — Stephanie Sporn, Vogue, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Epoxy Epoxy flooring is a resinous flooring composed of epoxy resin and a hardening agent.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The rest of the project is made of clay, and then it is coated in epoxy resin for the exterior, with the final coat being bronze.
    — Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Wind turbines use durable, long fiberglass blades (made of fiberglass bound with strong epoxy resin) to withstand the harshest elements.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Those windings are encapsulated in a protective epoxy resin, which helps to conduct heat away.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2018
  • Metal food and beverage cans are lined with an epoxy resin coating made from a family of chemicals called bisphenols.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 17 Aug. 2020
  • Their epoxy resin forms even resemble human lung and brain tissue to test how radiation passes through the human body.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Sep. 2022
  • His Cellular chair is 3-D-printed as one big piece of porous epoxy resin; one version is then cast in bronze.
    — Helena Madden, Robb Report, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Health officials say chemicals in epoxy resin can cause skin irritation and asthma.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Filling the air pockets with a substance like epoxy resin that bends light to a similar degree to the cell walls renders the wood transparent.
    — Jude Coleman, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2023
  • When coated with a special epoxy resin, the carbon-fiber material becomes rigid like aluminum, the main sheeting on jets.
    — Dennis Hohenberger, Courant Community, 14 Mar. 2018
  • It's made of epoxy resin and has 10 different LED color options.
    — Cailey Lindberg, Good Housekeeping, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The SoHo store features epoxy resin floors, expansive mirrors and gold accents.
    — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The workers are gluing the broken pieces together like a massive prehistoric puzzle, filling cracks in the bones with epoxy resin.
    — Zachary Small, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The strong and efficient hull is a sandwich of foam, e-glass, and epoxy resin, while the streamlined superstructure is made from lightweight carbon fiber.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 20 June 2024
  • Most of their bulk comes from blocks of syntactic foam—a buoyant, crush-resistant material made of glass microspheres in epoxy resin—that are padded around the frame.
    — Susan Casey, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Van Hassel explained how their cores hardly ever get pressure dings, while the epoxy resin used by Swellcycle is 30% biobased.
    — Molly McCrea, CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Using several layers of epoxy resin, astronauts inside the space station patched the slow leak—from a small hole a few millimeters across—a day after its detection.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2018
  • In the fabrication process for composites, carbon fiber tape impregnated with epoxy resin is laid on a mold, then hardened in a high-pressure oven called an autoclave.
    — Dominic Gates, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Nov. 2021
  • The rings are each designed from different materials — for example, The Frodo contains moss trapped in epoxy resin.
    — Leto Sapunar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Their approach was to embed a fragment of each object’s patina in a block of epoxy resin, in order to preserve its physical structure, and then to slice the block up using a diamond saw.
    — The Economist, 4 July 2019
  • For both the dress rehearsal and the final reassembly, the conservators will hold the fragments in place by circling them with snug-fitting collars made of carbon fiber cloth layered with epoxy resin, to which straps can be attached.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 17 Dec. 2017
  • Original bone material comprises just over 50 percent of the skeleton—the rest is made from plaster and epoxy resin casts, writes the AFP.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Apr. 2023
  • If the casual skater probably starts on Rollerblades, the entry drug to speed skating is often the Bont Jet, a short boot built of carbon and fiberglass hand-shaped around memory foam and epoxy resin.
    — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 2 Aug. 2023

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