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The marvellous high elasticity of rubber makes it one of man’s most useful materials and at the same time has presented him with one of nature’s most intriguing secrets. For over a century men tried but failed either to explain or to duplicate the unique properties and composition of tree-grown rubber. It is still true that ‘only God can make a tree’; until recent times, only the rubber tree could make rubber.
It is not strange that a material having the properties of natural rubber should arouse the curiosity of man and tease his imagination.−Erik Tornqvist
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© 1979 Frank M. McMillan
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McMillan, F.M. (1979). Fruitful Innovation — 3. Synthetic Rubber. In: The Chain Straighteners. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04430-6_10
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