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From the Ted Talk by Amy Smith: Simple designs to save a life
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So we went back to MIT, we took out the itnorsn machine and we figured out what sort of forces you needed in oderr to compress a briquette to the level that you actually are getting ieomvrpd prfoemncare out of it? And at the same time that we had students in the lab looking at this, we also had community partners in Haiti working to develop the pocrses, to ipmvroe it and make it more accessible to people in the villages there. And after some time, we developed a low-cost press that allows you to produce charcoal, which actually now burns not only — actually, it burns longer, cleaner than wood charcoal.
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So we went back to MIT, we took out the _______ machine and we figured out what sort of forces you needed in _____ to compress a briquette to the level that you actually are getting ________ ___________ out of it? And at the same time that we had students in the lab looking at this, we also had community partners in Haiti working to develop the _______, to _______ it and make it more accessible to people in the villages there. And after some time, we developed a low-cost press that allows you to produce charcoal, which actually now burns not only — actually, it burns longer, cleaner than wood charcoal.
Solution
- process
- order
- performance
- improved
- improve
- instron
Original Text
So we went back to MIT, we took out the Instron machine and we figured out what sort of forces you needed in order to compress a briquette to the level that you actually are getting improved performance out of it? And at the same time that we had students in the lab looking at this, we also had community partners in Haiti working to develop the process, to improve it and make it more accessible to people in the villages there. And after some time, we developed a low-cost press that allows you to produce charcoal, which actually now burns not only — actually, it burns longer, cleaner than wood charcoal.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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