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I always knew chickens were cool!

Did you know that chicken feathers have been researched as a source of plastic-like material? Chemical engineer Richard Wool and his graduate students mixed chicken feather down with soybean resin. They made circuit boards out of the resulting plastic. Their tests revealed a variety of chicken/soy plastic properties that outperformed regular plastic!

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