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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Michelle Collins, post: 638367, member: 10705&quot;]I am still having issues with trying to figure out what is what. I have been reading and reading and reading. I am sure this is a common issue with newbies. Please be patient with me. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think if I could figure out what Bakelite is when I come by it, because of the testing capabilities. Problem is Lucite. Correct me if I am wrong, because I am trying my best to learn. Not to annoy anyone. </p><p><br /></p><p>From what I have researched, Lucite is acrylic, chemically. Lucite is the trade name of the acrylic-plastic, when it was invented. Kind of like when my grandfather would call the refrigerator the Frigidaire? Even auto correct makes me capitalize the company names, when I use a lower case. Tissue today was once Kleenex, and some people still&nbsp; say: &quot;Can you get me a Kleenex?&quot;&nbsp; Is that a correct analogy or am I off?&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Lucite is plastic, why do some refer to something they do not think is Lucite as&nbsp; regular plastic? What is regular plastic? I am sure and have learned that there are other kinds of plastic in this day and before. My question is, how can you tell if there is no way to test it? If the chemical compound is the same, they are the same thing? </p><p><br /></p><p>When my grandfather told me to get him a beer from the Frigidaire, he was referring to the refrigerator. Same thing? Right? The difference is that the refrigerator he was telling me to get a beer from was a Frigidaire. If there is no way to test and all of the chemicals are the same, the only way to tell is if it was during a certain time period? Unlike Frigidaire, strings of beaded jewelry don&#039;t have a tag on them with the trade name Lucite. Am I understanding this correctly?&nbsp;&nbsp; Thanks in advance <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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