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Word: polymerization (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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TODAY: Sheets grown in the lab from human and synthetic-polymer matrix

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can I Replace My Body? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

TODAY: Grown in the lab from pig cells and synthetic-polymer matrix

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can I Replace My Body? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

TODAY: Grown in the lab from pig cells and synthetic-polymer matrix

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can I Replace My Body? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

TURNING UP THE JUICE Tired of notebook batteries that fizzle after just a few hours? Electrofuel of Toronto electrofuel.com has developed the first 15-hr. backup battery. Called the PowerPad 160, it weighs only 2 lbs. and is just three-eighths of an inch. Made of a patented material, Lithium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Technology Sep. 20, 1999 | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

In truth, Bakelite--whose more chemically formal name is polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride--was just a harbinger of the age of plastics. Since Bakelite's heyday, researchers have churned out a polysyllabic catalog of plastics: polymethylmethacrylate (Plexiglas), polyesters, polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride (PVC, a.k.a. vinyl), polyhexamethylene adipamide (the original nylon polymer), polytetraperfluoroethylene (Teflon), polyurethane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chemist LEO BAEKELAND | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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