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Description: The term latex (”rubber milk”) originally referred to the milky fluid of plants such as nlettuce, dandelion, rubber trees, etc. The raw material for natural latex comes exclusively from the plant Hevea braziliensis, a particular type of rubber or caoutchouc tree that grows on huge plantations in South America, but mainly in South East Asia. In 1830 the American chemist Charles Goodyear accidentally dropped a piece of caoutchouc, which had come into contact with sulfur, onto a hot stove. When
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