From DNA to Silly Putty, the diverse world of polymers - Jan Mattingly
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From DNA to Silly Putty, the diverse world of polymers - Jan Mattingly
TED-Ed Lesson: You are made of polymers, and so are trees and telephones and toys. A polymer is a long chain of identical molecules (or monomers) with a range of useful properties, like toughness or stretchiness -- and it turns out, we just can’t live without them. Polymers occur both naturally …