In my pursuit to develop new inorganic polymer materials, I was struck by the fact that the same simple hydrothermal conditions governed the synthesis of some organic plastics in alkali medium, as well as feldspathoids and zeolites. Thus phenol and formaldehyde polycondense into... Bakelite... On the other hand, the aluminosilicate kaolinite reacts with NaOH at 100-150°C and polycondenses into hydrated sodalite... or hydroxysodalite... I proceeded... to develop amorphous to semi-crystalline three-dimensional silico-aluminate [-Si-O-Al-O-] materials, which I call... geopolymers (mineral polymers resulting from geochemistry or geosynthesis).

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "In my pursuit to develop new inorganic polymer materials, I was struck by the fact that the same simple hydrothermal conditions governed the synthesis of some organic plastics in alkali medium, as well as feldspathoids and zeolites. Thus phenol and formaldehyde polycondense into... Bakelite... On the other hand, the aluminosilicate kaolinite reacts with NaOH at 100-150°C and polycondenses into hydrated sodalite... or hydroxysodalite... I proceeded... to develop amorphous to semi-crystalline three-dimensional silico-aluminate [-Si-O-Al-O-] materials, which I call... geopolymers (mineral polymers resulting from geochemistry or geosynthesis)." in the context of "" to mean that wisdom is timeless.