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Formica vs Melamine - What's the difference?

formica | melamine |

As nouns the difference between formica and melamine

is that formica is an ant while melamine is (label) a strong aromatic heterocyclic base, tri-amino-triazine, used, in combination with formaldehyde to manufacture melamine resins such as formica™.

formica

Translingual

Proper noun

    • Synonyms

    * (genus) wood ant, (mound ant), (field ant)

    Hypernyms

    * (genus) (Formicidae Hypernyms); Formicinae - subfamily;  - tribe

    Hyponyms

    * (genus)  - subgenera ** (type species)

    External links

    * ("Formica" on Wikipedia) * ("Formica" species on Wikimedia) * (comcatlite) * ----

    melamine

    English

    (wikipedia melamine)

    Noun

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  • (label) a strong aromatic heterocyclic base, tri-amino-triazine, used, in combination with formaldehyde to manufacture melamine resins such as Formica™
  • * 1995 , (Bill Bryson), (Notes from a Small Island) , chapter 20:
    • My room was everything I expected it to be—cold and cheerless, with melamine furniture, grubbily matted carpet and those mysterious ceiling stains that bring to mind a neglected corpse in the room above.