Recently,curators at Museums Have Experienced Problems with the Preservation of Plastic

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Multiple Choice

Recently,curators at museums have experienced problems with the preservation of plastic objects,almost all of which disintegrate over time.The Smithsonian collection contains the first-ever plastic toothbrush,which soon will be nothing more than a pile of crumbs.This problem is leading many historians to worry that we will lose the history of our

• A) symbolic culture.
• B) signs and gestures.
• C) linguistic relativity.
• D) material culture.

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