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Dismembered Body Parts: Day 31

Check out our dismembered body parts now!  Skipped a few days, do you think?  I got busy playing with other polymers with my students – pictures to follow.

When last we left our dismembered body parts, the hypothesis was that the polymer hand, foot, brain, nose, ear, and hungry alligator would eventually grow so large that they would push off the lid of the jar.  As you can see, that’s exactly what happened.

Check out the jar's lid.  It's being pushed out of the way by those giant still-growing polymer body parts!

Check out the jar’s lid. It’s being pushed out of the way by those giant still-growing polymer body parts!

Actually, as the jar seems to be completely full of dismembered body parts, I don’t think there’s any place for them to grow and go except up and out.

Quite a contrast to the tiny body parts that didn’t even cover the bottom of the jar a few weeks ago, huh.

That’s how polymers work – just add a little water and they morph into giant things that astound us.  Polymers are so cool.

Stay tuned for details on size.  I’ll need TWO rulers this time.

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