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From the Ted Talk by George Whitesides: A lab the size of a postage stamp

Unscramble the Blue Letters


There are also dipsticks, but if you look at the dipsticks, they're for another kind of unire analysis. There are an afwul lot of colors and things like that. What do you actually do about that in a difficult circumstance? So the aaoprpch we started with is to ask: Is it really practical to make things of this sort? And that problem is now, in a purely engineering way, solved. And the procedure that we have is silpmy to strat with paper. You run it through a new kind of printer called a wax pienrtr. The wax printer does what looks like printing. It is printing. You put that on, you warm it a little bit, the wax prints through, so it absorbs into the paper, and you end up with the device you want.

Open Cloze


There are also dipsticks, but if you look at the dipsticks, they're for another kind of _____ analysis. There are an _____ lot of colors and things like that. What do you actually do about that in a difficult circumstance? So the ________ we started with is to ask: Is it really practical to make things of this sort? And that problem is now, in a purely engineering way, solved. And the procedure that we have is ______ to _____ with paper. You run it through a new kind of printer called a wax _______. The wax printer does what looks like printing. It is printing. You put that on, you warm it a little bit, the wax prints through, so it absorbs into the paper, and you end up with the device you want.

Solution


  1. urine
  2. simply
  3. approach
  4. printer
  5. awful
  6. start

Original Text


There are also dipsticks, but if you look at the dipsticks, they're for another kind of urine analysis. There are an awful lot of colors and things like that. What do you actually do about that in a difficult circumstance? So the approach we started with is to ask: Is it really practical to make things of this sort? And that problem is now, in a purely engineering way, solved. And the procedure that we have is simply to start with paper. You run it through a new kind of printer called a wax printer. The wax printer does what looks like printing. It is printing. You put that on, you warm it a little bit, the wax prints through, so it absorbs into the paper, and you end up with the device you want.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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diagnostic system 2
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compute capability 2
blood cells 2
light source 2


Important Words


  1. absorbs
  2. analysis
  3. approach
  4. awful
  5. bit
  6. called
  7. circumstance
  8. colors
  9. device
  10. difficult
  11. dipsticks
  12. engineering
  13. kind
  14. lot
  15. paper
  16. practical
  17. printer
  18. printing
  19. prints
  20. problem
  21. procedure
  22. purely
  23. put
  24. run
  25. simply
  26. solved
  27. sort
  28. start
  29. started
  30. urine
  31. warm
  32. wax