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polymers and medicine
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throughout the course here.
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What I wanted to show you on this slide is--
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and again not that you would memorize
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or even be able to read all the details here,
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but there are a large number of different synthetic materials
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that now are produced and regularly used in medical applications.
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Polymers, as you know, are manufactured products.
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Most of them are made from products
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that are derived from petroleum or oil.
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They're organic molecules,
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typically small units that