{"id":252,"date":"2011-04-13T09:20:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T09:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bodyjewellery.co.uk\/?p=252"},"modified":"2015-02-05T20:40:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T20:40:51","slug":"acrylic-body-jewellery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bodyjewellery.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/04\/acrylic-body-jewellery\/","title":{"rendered":"Acrylic Body Jewellery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Acrylic glass, also known as Polymethyl Methacrylate (PMMA) is a lighter, shatterproof alternative to glass and so versatile it\u2019s used in applications from drum kits to dentures!<\/p>\n

PMMA has a good degree of compatibility with human tissue, which makes it ideal for body jewellery.\u00a0 Acrylic is used in medical applications such as replacement lenses in the eye in the treatment of cataracts.\u00a0 Dentures are often made from acrylic as they can be colour-matched to the patient\u2019s teeth and gums.<\/p>\n

Acrylic body jewellery<\/a> is particularly good for tongue piercings<\/a> as it\u2019s less likely to damage teeth, being lighter than other materials.<\/p>\n

Acrylic was first brought to market in 1933 and was famously used to make the gun turrets of the B-17 fighter planes in World War II.\u00a0 It\u2019s still used in in aviation today in plane windows and by NASA in space shuttles.\u00a0 It\u2019s also used in motor racing for car windows and helmet visors.<\/p>\n

Did you know acrylic is bullet proof! \u00a0Well when it\u2019s over 32mm thick, where it\u2019s used in the US Presidential motorcade & the Pope\u2019s mobile.<\/p>\n

Acrylic is particularly good for larger gauge piercing jewellery.\u00a0 Acrylic expanders<\/a> are much lighter than their counterparts in steel.<\/p>\n

Musician John Bonham from Led Zeppelin is well known for using acrylic drums called Vistalites, made by Ludwig-Musser. Salvador Dali used perspex as a surface to paint on and many artists still use acrylic paint to this day.<\/p>\n

Acrylic is particularly versatile as it can be easily moulded into all sorts of shapes, and coloured in almost any tone you can imagine!\u00a0Neon acrylic piercing jewellery<\/a> is particularly popular right now, it\u2019s the 80\u2019s vibe all over again!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Acrylic is ideal for display tanks in aquariums like the 112 metre long tunnel in Deep Sea World that holds over a million gallons of water.\u00a0 The curvature of the 6.5mm thick acrylic makes everything appear about 30% smaller, including the sharks!<\/p>\n

With so many applications it\u2019s easy to see why acrylic is such a good material to make body jewellery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Acrylic glass, also known as Polymethyl Methacrylate (PMMA) is a lighter, shatterproof alternative to glass and so versatile it\u2019s used in applications from drum kits to dentures! PMMA has a good degree of compatibility with human tissue, which makes it ideal for body jewellery.\u00a0 Acrylic is used in medical applications such as replacement lenses in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[72,74,27,73,9,8],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acrylic","tag-acrylic-2","tag-balls","tag-body","tag-expanders","tag-jewellery","tag-piercing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyjewellery.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyjewellery.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyjewellery.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyjewellery.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyjewellery.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyjewellery.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2273,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyjewellery.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/2273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyjewellery.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyjewellery.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyjewellery.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}