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Plastic in sentence

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And because we're not breaking down the plastic into molecules and recombining them, we're using a mining approach to extract the materials.
And instead of plopping down several hundred million dollars to build a chemical plant that will only make one type of plastic for its entire life, our plants can make any type of plastic we feed them.
And we make a drop-in replacement for that plastic that's made from petrochemicals.
At the end of this process, we have a mixed plastic composite: many different types of plastics and many different grades of plastics.
We grind the plastic down to about the size of your small fingernail.
And out the end of that part of the process come little flakes of plastic: one type, one grade.
We push that material to extruders where we melt it, push it through small die holes, make spaghetti-like plastic strands.
And these are just a few examples of companies that are buying our plastic, replacing virgin plastic, to make their new products.
So what happens when we pay attention is that the prefrontal cortex, the sort of executive part of our brains, sends a signal that makes a little part of our brain much more flexible, more plastic, better at learning, and shuts down activity in all the rest of our brains.
It's a plastic bag.
Then I found out, post exposure, that this plastic bag if I put it into a filthy puddle or a stream filled with coliforms and all sorts of disgusting stuff, that that filthy water will migrate through the wall of the bag by osmosis and end up inside it as pure, potable drinking water.
And all of a sudden, this plastic bag was extremely beautiful to me.
Suddenly you've converted energy into an electron on a plastic surface that you can stick on your window.
At the Lurie Family Center for Animal Imaging, our colleague, Andrew Kung, grew this cancer successfully in mice without ever touching plastic.
It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall.
It's stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here.
His basketball hands learned the tiny clicks and slides of lens into frame, film into camera, chemical into plastic bin.
I take a bottle or a chair or some other plastic product, I basically put it in with a few enzymes, they break it apart, they basically put it back into its original molecules.
And I ended up with a plastic nose, porcelain teeth and all kinds of other things.
The properties are very close to plastic.
And you can see, they're ranging from shoes, rings that were made out of stainless steal, phone covers out of plastic, all the way through to spinal implants, for example, that were created out of medical-grade titanium, and engine parts.
It's a compound that's found in polycarbonate plastic, which is what baby bottles are made out of.
And for those of you who are not parents, sippy cups are those little plastic things that your child graduates to after using bottles.
PJC: With many plastic baby bottles now proven to leak the chemical bisphenol A, it really shows how sometimes it is only a parent's awareness that stands between chemicals and our children.
But how would you like it if you never knew from one day to the next if you were going to spend it striding around like a vivid god, your shoulders in the clouds, or sitting down there amidst the wallpaper staring straight ahead with your little plastic face?
The transistor was a small plastic unit that would take us from a world of static bricks piled on top of each other to a world where everything was interactive.
Anesthetize you, open your chest, put you on an artificial heart and lung machine, drop your body temperature to about 18 centigrade, stop your heart, cut the aorta out, replace it with a plastic valve and a plastic aorta.
When we produced that model, we turned it into a solid, plastic model, as you can see, using a rapid prototyping technique, another engineering technique.
They cram them onto cots, put all your personal belongings in a plastic garbage bag, stick it underneath, and put you on the floor of an entire sports arena, or a gymnasium.
And we had about 10.2 million plastic surgeries in the United States, except that with the technologies that are coming online today, today's corrections, deletions, augmentations and enhancements are going to seem like child's play.
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