Welcome
How to Use this Module
Readings
Mystery Materials
Testing the Theory
Nylon
Meet Wallace Carothers
Back to Nature
Meet Linneaus C. Dorman
Replacing Bone
A Liquid Crystal
Meet Stephanie Kwolek
How Degrading!
What Do those Triangles Mean?
Polymers and Supercritical CO
2
Hands-on Activities
Fiber Fun!
The One that Got Away
Physical Properties
How Strong?
Rubber, Plastic, Fiber
The Glüg Recipe
Polymeric Sulfur
Challenge Activities
To Make You Think
The Great PVC Controversy
Synthetic Search
On Your Own Part 1
On Your Own Part 2
Tutorials
Molecular Mass
Covalent Bonding
The States of Matter
Glossary
Bibliography
About the Authors
Teacher's Guide
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