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Shaped articles of organic polymer resins having cellular (foamed) structure are made from heat-expandable normally solid thermoplastic resin compositions in permeable molds particularly characterized by flooding the mold cavity and the expandable material therein with molten salt as heating medium. For example, a permeable mold, charged with pieces of polyethylene containing azobisformamide and crosslinked by electron irradiation, is immersed into a molten salt eutectic mixture of KNO3, NaNO2 and NaNO3 at about 264 DEG C, removed, cooled and washed with water, thereby forming a coherent, unitary cellular resin molded article completely filling the mold cavity.
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