An elastic material obtained from the latex sap of trees (especially trees of the genera Hevea and Ficus) that can be vulcanized and finished into a variety of products.
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1 Officers used water cannon, teargas and rubber bullets, a police spokesman said.
2 Makers of rubber and plastic products are especially likely to consider re-shoring.
3 Power is concentrated in the presidency, with parliament seen as a rubber - stamp .
4 There are a good number of lambs ready for the rubber ring.
5 However, controversy reigned yesterday when Finland refused to play the fifth rubber .
1 When the riders returned with the caoutchouc , they brought several novelties besides.
2 The tough, adhesive mixture of caoutchouc oil and turpentine turned out well.
3 The balloon is composed of silk, varnished with the liquid gum caoutchouc .
4 They made excursions into the forest for days at a time after caoutchouc .
5 This caoutchouc , white, and greasy to the touch, is prepared in the East Indies.
1 Asia accounts for about 90 percent of the world's natural rubber output.
2 Condoms are made of natural rubber , a substance that degrades on exposure to ozone.
3 The three countries account for around 70% of the world's natural rubber production.
4 Thailand, along with Indonesia and Malaysia, produce nearly 70 percent of the world's natural rubber .
5 Similar outcomes have taken place in other commodity markets such as tin, natural rubber and coffee.
1 A gum elastic pipe should be always used instead of the hard ivory tube.
2 Among other fancy articles he had newspapers printed on the gum elastic drapery, and the improvement began to be highly appreciated.
3 Gum elastic or India rubber is plentiful.
4 The circumstances attending the discovery of his celebrated process is thus described by Mr. Goodyear himself in his book, " Gum Elastic . "
1 Hence, the India rubber and other protecting pads can be dispensed with.
2 He was trying to find out how to make India rubber useful.
3 And there's old Stratford, too: he's got some infernal India rubber patent.
4 The people in this country had never seen India rubber before.
5 To dream of India rubber , denotes unfavorable changes in your affairs.
6 Eyes that bounced like India rubber , especially when he was agreeing with something.
7 A planter's home, like the good Highland laird's, seems made of India rubber .
8 The India rubber soles of my boots felt squishy underfoot.
9 While there, he tried his first experiments with India rubber .
10 And you ain't one of the India rubber sort, neither.
11 He even carried a cane made of India rubber .
12 Upon examination this turned out to be India rubber .
13 Modo spotted a half-burned pair of India rubber boots and the sight prodded a memory.
14 This is the first instance on record of the spontaneous change of isoprene into India rubber .
15 His insulation was tarred hemp and India rubber .
16 In front of him are steel pens, India rubber eraser, blotting paper, rubber bands, a telephone.
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