Just adding to Trudy's answer

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Note added at 2002-01-22 21:04:59 (GMT)
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Unprocessed synthetic resins and plastics

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Note added at 2002-01-22 23:15:24 (GMT)
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I\'m not looking for points here. Just trying to be helpful with additional info because once you agree, you can\'t add another comment.

I am not in the least confused, thanks all the same. Astrid asked a reasonable and proper question, giving helpful context. I believe (naively?) that we should answer her question as asked. Since Trudy already gave the correct answer, anything else is not only unnecessary but unfair to the asker, other than as a footnote to Trudy's answer.

Kunst = synthetic, Harz = resin
Kunstharz = synthetic resin, ...e = ...s

Had the term being queried been (or included) 'im Rohzustand', then 'unprocessed' would be appropriate.

I am not casting nasturtiums on Astrid's intelligence. But if I ask about a term from medieval French poetry, of wich I know a big fat 0, I expect to be helped rather than hindered by Proz colleagues. For all I know, Astrid is the world's greatest authority on French poetry, but knows little about chemistry and chemical engineering. In answering terminology questions, I believe we need to bear in mind that possibility, otherwise the asker may be misled into thinking that 'unprocessed' forms part of the term Kunstharz - which it doesn't.

I already know that Astrid is intelligent. If in addition, she IS also an authority on chem. eng., then so much the better! :-)