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What’s the Difference Between a Turtle and a Tortoise?

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America’s 5 Most Notorious Cold Cases (Including One You May Have Thought Was Already Solved)

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Why Do Some Cicadas Appear Only Every 17 Years?

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New Seven Wonders of the World

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Estimated Battle Casualties During the Normandy Invasion and Campaign to Liberate Paris (June–August 1944)

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7 of History's Most Notorious Serial Killers

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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Also Known As	polychloroprene • CR • chloroprene rubber • Duprene

Topics

major industrial polymers synthetic rubber polyethylene cellulose acetate nitrocellulose PVC rayon silicone butyl rubber polypropylene ethylene-propylene copolymer polyisoprene

Key People

Samuel Shrowder Pickles

English chemist

Julius Arthur Nieuwland

American chemist