Have you ever wondered how fun toys like Silly Putty, Gak, and Slime are made? These products are so much fun because of the properties of polymers, which make them delightfully bouncy, stretchy, sticky, moldable, breakable, hard, soft,...

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This website tells the history of the development of teflon, and incldues information on Dr. Roy Plunkett, the inventor of teflon.