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 CO2
        Click to learn about Wallace Carothers!

      Click to learn about Linneaus C. Dorman!

      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

        Click to learn about Stephanie Kwolek!


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