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

      Tutorials

        Molecular Mass
        Covalent Bonding
        The States of Matter

        Glossary
        Bibliography
        About the Authors
        Student Version

        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


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