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On 11/27/2022 at 11:18 PM, Joseph said:

Fiber carbon ? 

Fiberglas (American spelling and only one 's') was the patent and trade name for the first company producing it. The name stuck like 'Hoover' for a vacuum cleaner.

The first Carbon Fibre (UK spelling) patent was taken out by the MOD who didn't really give a shit about marketing so didn't give it a catchy name. I guess  we're probably lucky it's not called "Fibres. Carbon. Thousands. For the purpose of laying up to form sheets material."

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Indeed, but as usual, a lack of common sense xD

Glass fibre is a fabric done with fibres made of glassg

So glass fibre is the logical term because it is indeed made with hot stretched to the max strands of glass that create fibres that are then chopped up

glass and carbon are used as adjectives, hence carbon fibre, because it describes what the fibres are made of. Thats also why you don't say fibre carbon.

a fibre glass if sense is used, describes a glass and the product it is designed to contain (like beer glass, wine glass etc)

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