Researchers Build a Dissolving Battery
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The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Technology researchers make a new bioresorbable battery.
- A2
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology built a bioresorbable battery.
- B1
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have built a bioresorbable battery.
- B2
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have built a bioresorbable battery.
- C1
Medical devices that patients swallow often rely on standard batteries containing metals like lithium.
- C2
When patients swallow medical devices, those tools frequently rely on standard batteries containing metals such as lithium.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- bioresorbable
- capable of being broken down and absorbed by the body
- dissolve
- to mix with a liquid and become part of it
- gastrointestinal tract
- the system of organs in the body that takes in food, digests it to extract energy, and expels the remaining waste
- absorb
- to take in a liquid, gas or other substance from the surface or space around
- production
- the process of making or growing something
- demonstrate
- to show or prove something clearly
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by MIT News. Read the original for the full report.