If you warm it up, Bakelite smells of the carbolic acid and formaldehyde that goes into its making. |
For adults, topical gifts included steel or Bakelite helmets, and gas mask cases in Rexine or leather. |
Brian caught his first fish, a gudgeon, from the river Tees as a young boy in the 1940's fishing with a Bakelite float. |
If you can't hear in that the tintinnabulation of heaven, then you have a J-cloth ear and a Bakelite soul. |
The first synthetic polymer produced by a condensation reaction was Bakelite. |
He is, after all, talking into a heavy, black, old, Bakelite telephone handset, with a thick coiled cord leading into his pocket. |