Plastic Before Plastic: How gutta-percha shaped the 19th century

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userbinator · 50m ago

Polymers supplanted and surpassed gutta-percha everywhere

Gutta-percha is a polymer. It's polyisoprene.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutta-percha#Chemistry

dvh · 1h ago

European spindle (brush) also contains this resin

blululu · 2h ago

I think your link is broken. Need to scroll past a more recent article on an incident of 19th century American history before the target article on botanicals and golf balls.

crescit_eundo · 1h ago

I clicked again on the link I posted to make sure it’s correct (https://worldhistory.substack.com/p/plastic-before-plastic) and it brought me directly to the blog post without needing to scroll through anything else. Wondering where the link you clicked on dumped you into?

dmitrygr · 1h ago

Link worked correctly for me

WillAdams · 1h ago

The link requires reading through the specifics of a violent event from U.S. history so as to pivot off the material used to make the device used as a weapon: gutta percha.

Perhaps the Wikipedia article would serve the discussion?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutta-percha

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Plastic Before Plastic: How gutta-percha shaped the 19th century

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