Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene is an opaque thermoplastic polymer. Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene is easily machined, sanded, painted, or glued. It has a high strength, stiffness, and melting temperature. It also has good chemical resistance.
Because it can be easily melted and formed, it is popular with injection molding and additive manufacturing. For additive manufacturing, it is most commonly formed into a filament, wrapped onto a spool, and used in FDM/FFF machines.
Transparent and translucent ABS materials have been used in injection molding for 15-20 years and transparent/translucent filament materials are becoming available for FDM/FFF.
A growing number of material extrusion (MEX) additive manufacturing systems use pellets made from ABS as feedstock rather than filament.
Abbreviated as ABS.
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