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German researchers develop mineral as flexible as rubber

Cecilia Jamasmie | March 15, 2013 | 1:57 pm Europe 

German scientists have created a new synthetic hybrid material with a 90% mineral content that is a malleable as rubber. The experts at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, who describe the highly unusual characteristic...

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