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Without Rubber, We Wouldn't Have Sports

Spoiler alert: Footballs are no longer made of pigskin.

The latest episode of Reactions, from the American Chemical Society, focuses sports balls, and how they owe their resilience and reliability to rubber (not pigskin).

Derivatives and spinoffs are everywhere in sports, and the chemical composition differs wildly from sport-to-sport. 

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