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Article: Rubber. (World Corner).(Brief Article)

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Rubber is made from the milky sap of various tropical plants including the Hevea caoutchouc. Charles-Marie de La Condamine (1701-1774), a French soldier and explorer, went to South America in the 1730s and noted local rubber production techniques, calling the substance caoutchouc after the local term for 'weeping wood'. Caoutchouc was named 'rubber' in the 1770s after English ...

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