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  • Answer: A -- A plastic six-pack holder takes 450 years to disintegrate.

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  • This microscopic scale and sensitivity allows the sensor to map a high-resolution image of electrical charge that occurs over the surface of a source material (for example a human finger), when it makes contact with a thin insulating surface (ie a plastic surface).

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