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Plastics Trivia Question
Scientists at University of Durham in the UK have found that a blend of emeraldine base polyaniline (PANi) and tetracyanoquinodi-
methane (TCNQ) plastics develops what property over time?:
A. Selective gas permeability
B. Osmotic permeability
C. Semiotic impermeability
D. Transparency
E. Magnetism
(Honor System: No Googling, Yahooing, or Dogpiling until after you've submitted your guess.)
Last month's question/results:
Original pink flamingo plastic lawn ornaments:
A. are still being manufactured by Union Products
B. were sculpted by artist Charles Motherwell
C. were first introduced in 1951
D. were dubbed by their creator "Haliaeetus leucocephalus plasticus"
E. won an Ig Nobel prize in 1996
The correct answer is E. won an Ig Nobel prize in 1996.
The responses are represented in the following chart:

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