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Aspects of the history of rubber are very briefly described, with special reference to the pioneers of vulcanization, Charles Goodyear and Thomas Hancock. The meaning of crosslinking is explained with reference to rubber and its highly crosslinked version, Vulcanite.
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Massy, J. (2017). Rubber in the 19th Century. In: A Little Book about BIG Chemistry. SpringerBriefs in Materials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54831-9_2
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