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According to literature records, these balls have excellent elasticity and even led visiting Spaniards to believe that these balls were possessed by evil spirits. Rubber is also used as a strap to secure wooden handles to stones or metal utensils, as well as as as a filler for handles.

Mayans can use rubber to make shoes. Although the indigenous peoples of Central America did not formally vulcanize rubber like modern people, they were still able to use organic compounds to achieve similar effects, such as mixing unprocessed emulsions into different varieties of tree sap or the sap of some vine plants.

Some indigenous people in Brazil use rubber to make waterproof fabrics. There were rumors that Portuguese people brought these clothes back to their homeland, which frightened their fellow villagers. As a result, they were accused of practicing witchcraft and brought to trial.

After rubber was introduced to the UK, it was found that this material can effectively wipe away the marks left by pencils. So nowadays, the English rubber is also used to describe erasers. Interestingly, nowadays Americans tend to call erasers erasers, while rubber is used to describe condoms.

The origin of natural rubber is the three leaf rubber tree, which provides the most commercial rubber. It secretes a lot of tree sap rich in rubber emulsions when damaged. In addition, fig trees and some plants in the Euphorbiaceae family can also provide rubber.

any tested to obtain rubber from these plants during World War II due to the blockage of rubber supply, but later switched to producing artificial rubber. Initially, rubber trees were good at growing in South America, but through artificial transplantation, there are now many rubber trees planted in Southeast Asia.

In fact, Asia has become the most important origin of rubber. Rubber made from silver chrysanthemum gum can reduce sensitivity. Although more than half of rubber materials are currently artificial, natural rubber still plays a crucial role in some industries, such as automotive and military industries