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Hugin

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7. Biotech candyland.

Reply to Gungnir (Reply #2)

Sat Apr 30, 2016, 11:03 PM

Apr 2016

That's what I'm talking about. I've also heard of the use of sugars in a similar way to plastics in 3-D printing.

They've been using reusable corn starch molds to cast gummie candy for at least a century.

There's a complete description of the molding process at about 2 minutes into this video:

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