Product Information
- Excellent low cost alternative to glass with half the weight and 10 time the impact strength
- Acrylic's excellent optical clarity does not darken or deteriorate from exposure to UV light, and transmits up to 92% of light with a refractive index of approximately 1.49
- Typical uses include aquariums, viewing ports, furniture accessories, chandeliers, and exterior lights of automobiles.
- Notable trade names include Acrylite, Lucite, PerClax, R-Cast, Plexiglas, Optix, Perspex, Oroglas, Altuglas, Cyrolite, and Sumipex
- Acrylic, is also known as Polymethyl Methacrylate or PMMA
