Word: polymerization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TODAY: Sheets grown in the lab from human and synthetic-polymer matrix
TODAY: Grown in the lab from pig cells and synthetic-polymer matrix
TODAY: Grown in the lab from pig cells and synthetic-polymer matrix
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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...