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Organic chemist Larry Koskan's inspiration arrived in the mid-1980s, when he read a report by marine biologists describing how oyster shells grow. ██ ███ █████ ████ ███████ ███████ ███████ █████████ ██ ██ █████████ ███████████ ██ █████ ████████ ██████████ ███ ███ ██████████ ██████████ ████ ████ ████ ███████ █ ███████ █████████████ █████ ████ █████ ███ ███████ ████ █████ ███████ ██████████████ ██████

Intro Topic · Discovery about oysters

Koskan inspired by oyster’s production of chemical.

Background · Acrylate

Acrylates used to clean industrial equipment.

Discovery · Aspartate

Aspartate produced by oysters achieves similar function.

Benefit · Biodegradable

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Benefit and functions · Acrylate cheap, versatile, detergent, disposable products

Acrylate benefits include being cheap and versatile. Uses include detergent and disposable products.

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Problem · Acrylate last forever, too much

Acrylate lasts forever and there’s too much in landfills.

Attempted solution · Aspartate replacement for acrylate

Koskan and others tried to commercialize aspartate.

Failure · Too expensive

It was too expensive to produce at scale, so others stopped.

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Successful solution · Aspartate successful in niche applications

Koskan successfully used aspartate in niche applications.

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23.

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The production of a marketing video doesn’t reveal anything about the continued success of Koskan’s company.

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Increased competition is not an example of the continued success of Koskan’s company.

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(C) provides an example of Koskan’s company showing continued success – Koskan takes money from his currently successful application of polyaspartate in certain niche industries and applies that money to application of polyaspartate in other areas.

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Demonstrating that polyacrylates are accumulating in landfills at increasing rates does not reveal the continued success of Koskan’s company at commercializing polyaspartate.

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Discovery of a special feature of polyaspartate produced by oysters does not reveal the continued success of Koskan’s company in commercializing polyaspartate.

PrepTest 156 - Section 3 - Passage 4 - Question 23

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