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- video no
- 80
- Brief description
- Heating a PET bottle over a bunsen burner flame. Before heating the plastic is in a less crystalline state than would be expected, as a result of the production process. Upon heating it recrystallises into a denser form, and therefore shrinks. (related topic - recycling polymers)
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- Date
- 05/09/06
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