From DNA to Silly Putty: The diverse world of polymers - Jan Mattingly

You are made of polymers, and so are trees and telephones and toys. A polymer is a long chain of identical molecules (or monomers) with a range of useful properties, like toughness or stretchiness -- and it turns out, we just can't live without them. Polymers occur both naturally -- our DNA is a polymer -- and synthetically, like plastic, Silly Putty and styrofoam. Jan Mattingly explains how polymers have changed our world.

Lesson by Jan Mattingly, animation by TED-Ed.

[Amandaajt]

I'm allergic to vinyl and it doesn't carry a warning. My days are trying to avoid touching stuff. I hope one day they put warnings on products like they do with latex:(

[mynoghra]

I love how she breaks character at 2:44 lol

[kirbymarchbarcena]

I'd rather be a polymer then than either a polywag or polywhirl

[lucyfer]

I am currently writing a research paper on plastics for my World Issues class.. Thank you for creating this when you did and making it so helpful!! :D

[aweditz]

This video really helped me in understanding what the polymers are. I have been juggling around the video but did not find better than this. Thank you❤

[nothingmanofgod.]

a synthetic come out from a bright light God🤣🤔👽

[ravangersplaty]

you can tell by the animation that this is from 10 years ago

[jordanmckee]

So am I right by saying that everything we can see pretty much consists of polymers 😂 another way of saying groups of atoms(molecules) of everything known to man

Even my eyes balls looking at the words I’m now typing consist of polymers which are what? Atoms but bonded in gruos as there are many which when many are molecules and again many molecules bonded are polymers? Hahhaa

Why do we complicate it by giving it another section by its name

Why not call them grouped molecules instead of polymers? Or am I missing the point here ???

[ynkrock]

Just learned about polymers in my organic chemistry class today. Free-radical chemistry is amazing

[Gatis-mzts]

I learned about polymers because of a roblox game called evolve where you evolve to the environment while teaming up with other players or attacking or just living in peace

[iyieditmaster]

am I the only 1 who is losing brain cells at light speed, what sin did I commit for my teacher to tell me to watch this 0_0

[yungheartbreak]

hi everyone im in class and i wanna kms ;)

[addictaedot]

Very helpfull. And the narrator's voice is so good.

[Anon.G]

Not all synthetic polymers are derived from petroleum.

[Tamizushi]

Why aren't we incinerating our MSW? It allows us to produce electricity with our waste, if done correctly it doesn't necessarily means that any significant amount of fly ash should be released and when we send them directly to the dump they tend to produce methane as they decompose, enough to cause about as much greenhouse effect as the CO2 we would release burning them.

[justinspykerman]

Could I go a day without using plastic, YESSS!!!

[YouKnowImRightHanded]

What isn't a polymer? Isn't everything made up of repetitive molecules a polymer? So everything that consists of two or more types of elements is a polymer?

[ClemensJason]

Why didn't I get this earlier during my high-school?

[nothingmanofgod.]

what did I say it builds up by one miracles of all a bright light God🤔🤣👽

[LetsBeBereans]

wood is a composite made up of materials that include polymers, wood itself is not a polymer