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Intended for ages 8-14, this book explores rubber starts out as sap from a tropical tree and ends up as tires on your family car. Find out how this sap was used in ancient times, how early rubber barons prospered in South America, how they treated their labourers, and the environmental dangers of producing both natural and synthetic rubber.
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Intended for ages 8-14, this book explores rubber starts out as sap from a tropical tree & ends up as tires on your family car. Find out how this sap was used in ancient times, how early rubber barons prospered in South America, how they treated their labourers, & the environmental dangers of producing both natural & synthetic rubber.

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rubber - Synthetic rubber is any artificial elastomer, usually a polymer, and is used as a substitute for natural rubber.
rubber - Natural rubber is an elastomer derived from the latex containing sap of some plants.
Car - A machine used for transport which runs on roads
Natural - not manmade
Tropical - Coming fro the work "tropics" a hot and humid area of the world.
Family - A group of people that live together made up from parents and children.

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