GC: n

S: http://www.epoxy-europe.eu/uploads/Modules/Resources/epoxy_erc_bpa_whitepapers_summarypaper.pdf (last access: 27 August 2016); https://plastics.americanchemistry.com/Product-Groups-and-Stats/PolycarbonateBPA-Global-Group/About-BPA-Epoxy-Resins.pdf (last access: 27 August 2016).

N: 1. epoxy (n): 1916, in reference to certain chemical compounds, from epi- + first element of oxygen. Epoxy- is used as a prefix in chemistry to indicate an oxygen atom that is linked to two carbon atoms of a chain, thus forming a “bridge” (“intramolecular connection” is one of the chemical uses of epi-). Resins from epoxides are used as powerful glues. Hence the verb meaning “to bond with epoxy” (1965). Related: Epoxied.
resin (n): late 14c., from Old French resine “gum, resin,” and directly from Latin resina “resin,” from Greek rhetine “resin of the pine,” of unknown origin.
2. A resin containing epoxy groups capable of crosslinking.
3. Ethoxylene (or ethoxyline) resin, a type of epoxy resin.
4. epoxy resin; EP resin: terms and definition standardized by ISO.

S: 1. OED – http://goo.gl/A6l406; http://goo.gl/cz7SYr (last access: 27 August 2016). 2 to 4. TERMIUM PLUS – http://goo.gl/UrRMue (last access: 27 August 2016).

SYN: epoxide resin, EP resin, epoxy.

S: TERMIUM PLUS – http://goo.gl/UrRMue (last access: 27 August 2016)

CR: bisphenol A