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Winter 2006 Departments
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Why You Should Love Polymers
Where There's Spark
Falling for Shelburne Falls
Where Are They Now?
Lessons in the Sand
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Why You Should Love Polymers: more images
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| The Electrostatic Basket.
What looks to be a woven basket is an optical micrograph of a polymer film made unstable by using an electric field. The strands are microscopic hills of polymers about the size of a human hair. |
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Why You Should Love Polymers
Why You Should Love Polymers: more images
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