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Materials
Concrete: Universal Building Material
(May 1990)
Film: An Extraordinary Imaging Tool
(Aug 1987)
Glass: Sand's Versatile Gift
(Mar 1988)
Nitinol: Metal With a Memory
(Sep 1993)
Nylon: The Ubiquitous, Indispensable Superpolymer
(Jul 1988)
Paint: Coloring Our World
(Jun 2004)
Polyethylene: Versatile for High and Low Tech
(Feb 1988)
Rubber: Rolling On and On
(May 1989)
Teflon: The Accidental Superpolymer
(Sep 1988)
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