Molecular model - Vinyl Acetate - atomic scale model of slime's main monomer

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Just a nice water-tight, manifold, 3D-friendly STL molecular model of Vinyl Acetate. I use these to teach my kids about chemistry - in particular here Polyvinyl Acetate (PVA) is the white glue all the little girls are using to make slime in elementary school, so I made this to show my daughter what's in the slime. See my profile for others. Some I have printed and some I haven't gotten to yet. I do take molecule requests but I'm not necessarily fast about it :). For FDM these will need lots of supports and careful planning. I look forward to seeing some SLM versions, which should be easier. The images are from various points in the modeling process. All molecules are subject to computational atomic bond optimization and simulation to get the correct bond angles. The atomic "ball" is scaled linearly with atomic radius, although the absolute radius shown is still just for modeling and ease of representation. The models should have enough triangles for very large fabrication. All images and models are originals by me.