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Award-Winning Chemistry Professor Engages Students With The Soft Side Of Science, Gwinnett
Have you ever stopped to think how fascinating toothpaste is? Its solid-like and changes to fluid-like as it's squeezed out of a tube?
October 20, 2020
Have you ever stopped to think how fascinating toothpaste is? Its solid-like and changes to fluid-like as it’s squeezed out of a tube, then becomes solid-like again once it’s resting on the toothbrush. That consistency is no accident, said Dr. Ajay Mallia, associate professor of chemistry at Georgia Gwinnett College. It is by design, and the science behind those miraculous properties is what he has dedicated his life to studying and teaching.
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