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From the Ted Talk by Justin Hall-Tipping: Freeing energy from the grid


Unscramble the Blue Letters


Wouldn't it be really graet if the window could flick back the heat into the room if we needed it or flcik it away before it came in? One of the materials that can do this is a raeblkarme material, carbon, that has changed its form in this incredibly beautiful reaction where graphite is blasted by a vpaor, and when the vaporized cbaorn condenses, it condenses back into a different form: chickenwire rolled up. But this chickenwire carbon, called a carbon nanotube, is a hundred thousand times smaller than the width of one of your hrias. It's a thousand times more conductive than copper. How is that possible? One of the things about working at the nanoscale is things look and act very differently. You think of carbon as black. Carbon at the nsnaaloce is actually transparent and flexible. And when it's in this form, if I combine it with a polymer and affix it to your window when it's in its colored state, it will reflect away all heat and light, and when it's in its bahceeld state it will let all the light and heat through and any combination in between. To change its state, by the way, takes two volts from a mliosnliced pulse. And once you've changed its state, it stays there until you change its state again.

Open Cloze


Wouldn't it be really _____ if the window could flick back the heat into the room if we needed it or _____ it away before it came in? One of the materials that can do this is a __________ material, carbon, that has changed its form in this incredibly beautiful reaction where graphite is blasted by a _____, and when the vaporized ______ condenses, it condenses back into a different form: chickenwire rolled up. But this chickenwire carbon, called a carbon nanotube, is a hundred thousand times smaller than the width of one of your _____. It's a thousand times more conductive than copper. How is that possible? One of the things about working at the nanoscale is things look and act very differently. You think of carbon as black. Carbon at the _________ is actually transparent and flexible. And when it's in this form, if I combine it with a polymer and affix it to your window when it's in its colored state, it will reflect away all heat and light, and when it's in its ________ state it will let all the light and heat through and any combination in between. To change its state, by the way, takes two volts from a ___________ pulse. And once you've changed its state, it stays there until you change its state again.

Solution


  1. flick
  2. nanoscale
  3. remarkable
  4. bleached
  5. vapor
  6. carbon
  7. millisecond
  8. great
  9. hairs

Original Text


Wouldn't it be really great if the window could flick back the heat into the room if we needed it or flick it away before it came in? One of the materials that can do this is a remarkable material, carbon, that has changed its form in this incredibly beautiful reaction where graphite is blasted by a vapor, and when the vaporized carbon condenses, it condenses back into a different form: chickenwire rolled up. But this chickenwire carbon, called a carbon nanotube, is a hundred thousand times smaller than the width of one of your hairs. It's a thousand times more conductive than copper. How is that possible? One of the things about working at the nanoscale is things look and act very differently. You think of carbon as black. Carbon at the nanoscale is actually transparent and flexible. And when it's in this form, if I combine it with a polymer and affix it to your window when it's in its colored state, it will reflect away all heat and light, and when it's in its bleached state it will let all the light and heat through and any combination in between. To change its state, by the way, takes two volts from a millisecond pulse. And once you've changed its state, it stays there until you change its state again.

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Important Words


  1. act
  2. affix
  3. beautiful
  4. black
  5. blasted
  6. bleached
  7. called
  8. carbon
  9. change
  10. changed
  11. chickenwire
  12. colored
  13. combination
  14. combine
  15. condenses
  16. conductive
  17. copper
  18. differently
  19. flexible
  20. flick
  21. form
  22. graphite
  23. great
  24. hairs
  25. heat
  26. incredibly
  27. light
  28. material
  29. materials
  30. millisecond
  31. nanoscale
  32. nanotube
  33. needed
  34. polymer
  35. pulse
  36. reaction
  37. reflect
  38. remarkable
  39. rolled
  40. room
  41. smaller
  42. state
  43. stays
  44. takes
  45. thousand
  46. times
  47. transparent
  48. vapor
  49. vaporized
  50. volts
  51. width
  52. window
  53. working