Title:
The biography of rubber
Personal Author EPSB:
Summary:
Examines where rubber comes from and how it is processed into usable products, and describes the creation of synthetic rubber during World War One.
Other Title:
Rubber
Year Published:
2006
Series:
Physical Description:
32 p. : ill.
Note:
Includes glossary and index.
20.00
Contents:
The sap of a tree -- What is rubber? -- The science of rubber -- Plantation and laboratory -- From forest to plantation -- The rubber barons -- Botanists, colonists, and thieves -- Filling a need -- Tappers and plantations -- From latex to rubber -- Recycling and reusing -- Rubber today.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader MG 7.3 1.0 103195
ISBN:
9780778724865
Publisher:
New York : Crabtree, c2006.
