Assertion: compound's application | /r/AtLocation | limited
Facets:
value: by its extreme rigidity
type: CAUSE
Source sentences:
text: Commercial application of the plastic was at first limited by its extreme rigidity; however, in 1926, while trying to dehydrohalogenate PVC in a high-boiling solvent in order to obtain an unsaturated polymer that might bond rubber to metal, Waldo Lunsbury Semon, working for the B.F. Goodrich Company in the United States, produced what is now called plasticized PVC.