Casein Plastic Sheets

I am inquiring about the casein plastic sheets and wondering if you have sheets for sale.

Casein plastic sheets.

And also if you know of anyone that has these materials for sale to luthiers. Cow s milk contains about 3 percent casein. Curds are the fat and casein protein from the milk. In the year 2012 the to.

Casein based plastic has been around since the 1880s when a french chemist treated casein with formaldehyde to produce a material that could substitute for ivory or tortoiseshell. Nowadays the products are used in applications ranging from cutlery to electronic devices and much more. Ford at one point had experimented making a plastic car substituting casein based plastics with soybean and hemp based plastics see henry s hobbies pg 283. They form together in chains known as polymers.

But although it s ideal for jewelry that even queen mary admired casein based plastic is too brittle for much more than adornment. The casein chains you formed in this experiment will harden into a type of plastic. In pure form it is an amorphous white solid tasteless and odourless while its commercial type is yellowish with a pleasing odour. Today plastic is a term referring to the fossil based polymer that begun production on industrial scale in the 1940s.

Casein is a beautiful plastic and warm to the touch unlike most. The raw casein protein in granule or powder form is not hard to find but the finished plastic is. Casein plastic and starch based plastic. Due to its extensive colour range casein was popular for small decorative and functional objects and was used extensively in the button trade.

Invented in germany it was launched by the international galalith gesseschaft hoff co. Pure casein is an amorphous white solid without. Casein or galalith was a plastic made from milk protein and formaldehyde. The casein is finally rinsed and dried most of the harmful chemical leaving the end product by off gassing and repeated rinsing.

All plastics are polymers. At the paris universal exhibition of 1900 casein plastic could not be moulded like bakelite but had to be cut or carved from rods or sheets. Auguste trillat discovered the means to insolubilize casein by immersion in formaldehyde producing material marketed as galalith. Casein the chief protein in milk and the essential ingredient of cheese.

It used to be manufactured in many places often under the name galalith. Casein plastics are made from a protein found predominantly in milk and mixed with a formaldehyde to produce a plastic that was easily dyed into a variety of colours. I am interested in the ivory and tortoise colors.