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From the Ted Talk by Fiorenzo Omenetto: Silk, the ancient material of the future
Unscramble the Blue Letters
So this material is silk. So it's kind of different from what we're used to thinking about silk. So the question is, how do you reinvent something that has been around for five millennia? The prsoecs of discovery, gneallery, is inspired by nature. And so we marvel at silk worms — the silk worm you see here spinning its fiber. The silk worm does a remarkable thing: it uses these two ingredients, ptroein and waetr, that are in its gland, to make a material that is exceptionally tough for protection — so comparable to thccianel fibers like Kevlar. And so in the reverse engineering process that we know about, and that we're familiar with, for the tieltxe industry, the textile industry goes and unwinds the cocoon and then weaves glmouraos things. We want to know how you go from water and protein to this liquid kelvar, to this natural Kevlar.
Open Cloze
So this material is silk. So it's kind of different from what we're used to thinking about silk. So the question is, how do you reinvent something that has been around for five millennia? The _______ of discovery, _________, is inspired by nature. And so we marvel at silk worms — the silk worm you see here spinning its fiber. The silk worm does a remarkable thing: it uses these two ingredients, _______ and _____, that are in its gland, to make a material that is exceptionally tough for protection — so comparable to _________ fibers like Kevlar. And so in the reverse engineering process that we know about, and that we're familiar with, for the _______ industry, the textile industry goes and unwinds the cocoon and then weaves _________ things. We want to know how you go from water and protein to this liquid ______, to this natural Kevlar.
Solution
- process
- kevlar
- technical
- generally
- water
- textile
- protein
- glamorous
Original Text
So this material is silk. So it's kind of different from what we're used to thinking about silk. So the question is, how do you reinvent something that has been around for five millennia? The process of discovery, generally, is inspired by nature. And so we marvel at silk worms — the silk worm you see here spinning its fiber. The silk worm does a remarkable thing: it uses these two ingredients, protein and water, that are in its gland, to make a material that is exceptionally tough for protection — so comparable to technical fibers like Kevlar. And so in the reverse engineering process that we know about, and that we're familiar with, for the textile industry, the textile industry goes and unwinds the cocoon and then weaves glamorous things. We want to know how you go from water and protein to this liquid Kevlar, to this natural Kevlar.
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