Epoxy or epoxies

Epoxies are the resulting product of a chemical reaction called ‘curing’, which involves reacting epoxy resins with other chemicals known as ‘hardeners’. Together they create epoxy plastics. However, as resins are the most important component of epoxy polymers, in everyday common language the term ‘epoxy resins’ is often used to refer to the end cured product as well as to the uncured resin. Epoxy is also often used to indicate an epoxide group, which is the reactive functional component found in epoxy resins.