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plasticize

[′plas·tə‚sīz]
(engineering)
To soften a material to make it plastic or moldable by adding a plasticizer or by using heat.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Since the plasticizer plasticize polymer, the typical expectation is that the tensile modulus of plasticized material decreases as shown in Fig.
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