CLASS OF
MATERIAL |
RELATED
LAB EXPERIMENTS |
PROPERTIES, EXAMPLES |
HISTORY |
METALS

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Physical Properties of Materials
Properties of Crystals
Heat Capacities of Materials
Modification of Metal Properties
Effect of Metals on Fabric Dyeing
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Metallurgy examples from the Science Museum:
Brass
... Bronze
... Manganese
steel ... Tin
... Tantalum
Orthopaedic
Metal Alloys
US Steel's automotive
steel varieties
American Elements catalog
"Eco-design"
and Strategic Metals
What's That Stuff?
fireworks ...
handwarmers
Building a greener battery
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Wisconsin copper mining
Old Copper Culture Milwaukee Public Museum
Roman
mining
iron
age smelting,forging,charcoal making
Medieval
ironworking
BBC
blast furnace
How
Steel is Made (AISI)
Basic Oxygen Furnace Steelmaking
NOVA
Samurai Sword
Hall
process for Aluminum
sustainability at Alcoa
USGS critical minerals report
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POLYMERS
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Physical Properties of
Materials
Heat Capacities of Materials
Fiber Identification
Polymers from Monomers
Paper Chromatography
Effect of Metals on Fabric Dyeing
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Macrogalleria of
polymers
American Chemistry Council information about Plastics
Paper Making 101
Paper Mill Sustainability
USDA Forest Products Lab Nanocellulose Pilot Plant
wood products
plywood
data
polymers for 3D extrusion printers
record-setting
3D printer nonstick coating
renewable feedstocks: Ingeo
Sorona
Virent
Transforming Textiles
What's That Stuff?
paper
... leather...
amber
... chewing
gum ...
Jello
... polyurethane
foam ...
Lycra/Spandex
... contact
lenses ...
dryer
sheets ...
raincoats...
Silly
Putty ... pencils
... erasers
...
plastic
bags ... adhesive
tape ...liquid bandages ...
Silly
String ...golf
balls ...bowling balls ... new
car
smell ... synthetic
grass ... gasoline
... motor
oil ... asphalt
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History of Paper
Breaking
the Plastic Bag Habit
Reinvention
of Silk
Spartacus
sites on textile industry
Industrial
Revolution
BBC
spinning mill
20th Century textile mills
Bakelite (Science History Institute)
macromolecular theory (Science History Institute)
neoprene & nylon (Science History Institute)
first addition polymers (Science History Institute)
Plastics Historical Society
The
Art of the Brick
History of Sugru
US Trade data
AIPIA Active & Intelligent Packaging
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DYES & PAINTS

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Paper Chromatography
Preparation of Pigment and Paints
Effect of Metals on Fabric Dyeing
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light
and color
food
coloring
Paula Burch's web site (dyes)
Dharma
Trading Company
Pigments
for Oil Paints (Gamblin)
Air-Ink
What's That Stuff?
oil paints ... hair
coloring ... henna
... ink
... tattoo
ink... food
coloring ... nail
polish ... road
markings ... self-darkening
eyeglasses ... instant
film
sunglasses
"on demand" video
Earth Pigments
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Did
Vikings navigate with polarized light?
ancient
dyes
iron
age dyeing
turkey
red dyeing
Sir
William Henry Perkin, FRS
synthetic
dyes
Pigments
through the Ages
Egyptian
blue
pigment
Urushi
(Japanese lacquer)
Amami Oshima Kimonos
traditional Easter egg dyes
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CERAMICS
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Physical Properties of
Materials
Heat Capacities of Materials
Identification of Metals in Ceramics
Preparation and Modification of Glass
Preparation of Concrete
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sustainable
pottery at Saint John's
Ceramics Arts Network
Kintsugi
video
Refraction
of Light
Corning Science of Glass
Scientific
Glassblowing
chemically strengthened glass
Vitro(PPG) glass processing videos
colors
of gemstones
Porcelain
Enamel
Properties
Brick
Manufacture
Self
Healing Concrete
demonstration
of bendable concrete
LEED certification
LEED certified buildings at UWO
What's That Stuff?
glass
..updated glass... body
armor ... cement
... opals |
neolithic archaeology (Field Museum)
iron
age pottery
making
Athenian black & red figured vases
firing
black
&
red
figured
vases
faience
Ceramics
Collection at V&A Museum
Wedgwood Collection
glass shaping techniques
Schott
glass
Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of
Glass
Corning Museum of Glass
Corning
Glass timeline
dichroic Lycurgus Cup
Venetian
Glass
UN International Year of Glass 2022
NOVA
Roman
Bath
robotic bricklayers?
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SEMICONDUCTORS
AND
ADVANCED
MATERIALS
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LEDs
Photolithography
Molecular Beam
Epitaxy
CVD
Diamond
what your smartphone is made of DOE solar cell materials: Si CdTe CIGS earth-abundant perovskite III-V organic
kesterites
Intel chip fabrication
everyday uses of nanotechnology
quantum
dots manufacturing
superconductors
NOVA's Making
Stuff:
World's
Strongest
Stuff
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Timeline
of Semiconductors in Computers
Computer Chip Visionaries Win Turing Award
Nobel
Prize for Blue LED
NOVA: Materials
That
Changed History
OLED displays
quantum dot TV screens
Parker Solar Probe
rare
earth mining
recycling
e-waste
Solving
The E-waste Problem
A new circular vision for electronics
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