Gutta-percha is a tree of the genus Palaquium in the family Sapotaceae. The name also refers to the rigid, naturally biologically inert, resilient, electrically...
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The Gutta Percha Company was an English company formed in 1845 to make a variety of products from the recently introduced natural rubber gutta-percha. Unlike...
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inert filling such as gutta-percha and typically a zinc oxide eugenol-based cement. Epoxy resin is employed to bind gutta-percha in some root canal procedures...
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Gutta-percha Boy (Russian: Гуттаперчевый мальчик, romanized: Guttaperchevyy malchik) is a 1957 Soviet drama film adaptation of the novel by Russian writer...
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Garcinia gummi-gutta is a tropical species of Garcinia native to South Asia and Southeast Asia. Common names include Garcinia cambogia (a former scientific...
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William Montgomerie (section Gutta-percha)
medical department at Singapore. He is best known for promoting the use of gutta-percha in Europe. This material was an important natural rubber that made submarine...
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The India Rubber, Gutta Percha and Telegraph Works Company was a London-based company based in Silvertown, East London. It was founded by Stephen William...
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readily applied to wire made its appearance in 1842. Gutta-percha, the adhesive juice of the Palaquium gutta tree, was introduced to Europe by William Montgomerie...
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English Channel. An unarmoured cable with gutta-percha insulation was laid in 1850. The recently introduced gutta-percha was the first thermoplastic material...
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to tap. Some produce other desirable materials, for example gutta-percha (Palaquium gutta) and chicle from Manilkara species. Others that have been commercially...
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ordered 2,500 nautical miles (4,600 km; 2,900 mi) of cable from the Gutta Percha Company. The Atlantic Telegraph Company was formed in October 1856, with...
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Chatterton and Willoughby Smith. Its constitution is as follows: 3 parts gutta-percha 1 part rosin 1 part Stockholm tar Chatterton's Compound was also used...
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synthesised and extracted from plant sap, the latter resin being known as gutta-percha. These were widely used as an electrical insulator and as components...
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filled with the inert gutta percha root canal filling material, some gutta percha is removed from the canal space. Gutta percha can be removed mechanically...
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material (Resilon and Real Seal) and gutta-percha is that the PCL-based material is biodegradable, whereas gutta-percha is not. There is a lack of consensus...
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Some plants produce a polyisoprene with trans double bonds, known as gutta-percha. Norisoprenoids, characterized by the shortening of a chain or ring by...
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used in the warm gutta percha technique. Under the surgical microscope, there is an obvious gap between the heated and cooled gutta percha and the dentinal...
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are other well-known plants such as blueberries, cranberries, sapote, gutta-percha, tea, phlox, and persimmons. The tree is the only species in the monotypic...
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making. In 1847, English dentist Edwin Truman (1819–1905) introduced gutta-percha as a material for making dental impressions; however, this was unsatisfactory...
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The seeds of Palaquium gutta are used to make soap and candles, occasionally in cooking. The latex is used to make gutta-percha. The timber is logged and...
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thousands in a year. Alternative materials, such as whalebone, cane, gutta-percha, and even inflatable caoutchouc (natural rubber) were all used for hoops...
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Co. Ltd., Manufacturers Life Insurance, Toronto General Trusts, and Gutta Percha and Rubber Limited. In 1914, he married Helen Huntington Warren whose...
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composite golf tee made from wood and natural rubber (specifically, gutta-percha) tubing. Grant was born on September 15, 1846, in Oswego, New York, to...
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is also sometimes known as "gutta-percha tree" or "Chinese rubber tree", but is not related to either the true gutta-percha tree of southeastern Asia,...
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introduced gutta-percha, the adhesive juice of the Palaquium gutta tree, to Europe. Michael Faraday and Wheatstone soon discovered the merits of gutta-percha as...
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Tetraterpenoids (Carotenoids) (8) Polyterpenoids (many) Natural rubber Gutta percha Gutta-balatá Norisoprenoids (modified) 3-oxo-α-ionol 7,8-dihydroionone Synthesis...
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many species can be processed to produce many materials. Balatá and gutta percha latex contain an inelastic polymer related to rubber.[citation needed]...
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legendary skaters as Larman Register, William "Turkey" Smart, (William) "Gutta Percha" See, and brothers George 'Fish' Smart (1858-1909) and James Smart (1865-1928)...
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Beiersdorf collaborated with dermatologist Paul Gerson Unna to produce gutta-percha plasters in his laboratory on the basis of his patent, laying the foundations...
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packaging materials in 1854. The label was the first to use hardened gutta-percha waterproofing to produce its trunks and packing boxes. In 1870, Moynat...
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