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From the article: >Rubber is also considered plastic, both natural (isoprene) and synthetic (styrene butadiene).
by supercanuck 7y ago
From the article:
>Rubber is also considered plastic, both natural (isoprene) and synthetic (styrene butadiene).
- grosswait 7y agoDefinitely not what comes to mind when I think of plastics. I usually hear Bakelite quoted as the first invented plastic.
- pmahoney 7y agoThink "polymer" or "synthetic polymer" since these will be the things bacteria and other parts of nature have not evolved around. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer#Common_examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer#Common_examples
- kube-system 7y agoSynthetic rubber was, in fact, invented after Bakelite.