Interesting Facts about Rubber.

1. "Champion" rubber trees can produce more than 10 kilograms of rubber a year

2. Consumption of rubber in the United States is about four times as great per person as in the rest of the world.

3. Rubber can be made so elastic that it will stretch to more than nine times its normal length

4. Rubber plantations Throughout the world cover over 9.2 million hectares

5. Synthetic rubber is made from chemicals obtained from such raw materials as petroleum, natural gas, coal, coke, grain, and potatoes.

6. Thomas A. Edison once made rubber from the latex of a giant goldenrod plant

7. World's largest tyre in regular production contains over 3,200 kilograms of natural rubber. It is used in mining operations in North America

8. World production of synthetic rubber increased more than tenfold during 1941 to 1944 because of the war effort.

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