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The confused finder took to Reddit's popular 'What Is This Thing' forum posting a photo of the mysterious item. They shared a photo of a small plastic cylinder with an orange stopper. In the caption, ...

Liquid crystals are substances that flow like a liquid but maintain some of the ordered structure of crystals. Liquid-crystal molecules tend to be elongated and to orient in specific directions.

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Ionic liquids are salts with melting points below 100 oC and are therefore liquids at lower temperatures than other salts. The materials can have useful physical properties, such as low or ...

"UMass Lowell is among the nation's leading centers for plastics technology, and its Plastics Engineering program...is helping to push new boundaries of how these versatile materials are used, ...