Carotenoids. Carotenoids are very long-chain water-repelling pigments that are synthesized in the plastids of plant cells. In the sunflower, a common carotenoid, ss-Ã, carotene is produced in the chromoplasts of the ray flowers to produce bright-yellow orange. colorsarotenoids. Carotenoids are very long-chain water-repelling pigments that are synthesized in the plastids of plant cells. In the sunflower, a common carotenoid, ss-Ã, carotene is produced in the chromoplasts of the ray flowers to produce bright-yellow orange. colors
Bette Nesmith Graham. Liquid Paper Inventor. As electric typewriters came into widespread use after World War II, Bette Nesmith Graham and countless other secretaries let out a collective groan. The new machines did make typing easier, but their carbon-film ribbons made it impossible to correct mistakes neatly with a pencil eraser.
The world's first fully synthetic plastic was bakelite, invented in New York in 1907 by Leo Baekeland who coined the term 'plastics'. Many chemists have contributed to the materials science of plastics, including Nobel laureate Hermann Staudinger who has been called the father of polymer chemistry and Herman Mark, known as the father of polymer physics.