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Bakelite

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Bakelite

Summary

Bakelite is a plastic[1]. Bakelite draws 3,108 Wikipedia views per month (plastic category, ranking #1 of 9).[2]

Key Facts

  • Bakelite is credited with the discovery of Leo Baekeland[3].
  • Bakelite's instance of is recorded as plastic[4].
  • Leo Baekeland is named after Bakelite[5].
  • Bakelite is a type of phenol formaldehyde resin[6].
  • Bakelite's Commons category is recorded as Bakelite[7].
  • Bakelite's time of discovery or invention is recorded as 1907[8].
  • Bakelite's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Bakelite[9].
  • Bakelite's refractive index is recorded as {'amount': '+1.63'}[10].
  • Bakelite's described by source is recorded as Nordisk familjebok[11].
  • Bakelite's density is recorded as {'unit': 'Q13147228', 'amount': '+1.3'}[12].
  • Bakelite's relative permittivity is recorded as {'amount': '+7'}[13].

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Works and Contributions

Bakelite is credited with the discovery of Leo Baekeland[3].

Why It Matters

Bakelite draws 3,108 Wikipedia views per month (plastic category, ranking #1 of 9).[2] Bakelite has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] Bakelite is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

Related Entities

Leo Baekeland

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Art & Architecture Thesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Named after → Leo Baekeland
    Density → {'unit': 'Q13147228', 'amount': '+1.3'}
    Instance of → plastic
    Relative permittivity → {'amount': '+7'}
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 38143, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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