Hortensia Madre
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Rubber is an important industrial raw material and grows only in the tropics. At the beginning of the 20th century, the United States could only rely on imports because it could not grow rubber locally, so Edison asked: "Can you extract similar ingredients from plants?" After this idea was proposed, the United States developed synthetic rubber.
By Hortensia Madreabout a year ago in Beat