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Spontaneous Assembly of Soda Straws
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This paper describes simple methods for demonstrating spontaneous assembly of visible particles to illustrate topics such as the thermodynamics of crystallization. The assembling units are polymer tubes--portions of soda straws or connector bonds from certain chemistry model kits--floated on water.
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- Received: August 03, 2009
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