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reactionware

Custom-built laboratory containers (labware) that test chemical reactions because the reagents are built into the container material. The idea of fabricating such containers with low-cost 3D printers came from Professor Lee Cronin at the University of Glasgow. For more information, visit www.chem.gla.ac.uk/cronin. See wares.
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