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Sports balls of all varieties whether it be soccer, or hockey, or tennis, owe their resilience and reliability to an unusual polymer, one whose derivatives and spinoffs are everywhere you look, from cars to shoes to rocket fuel. Learn about rubber, the all-star’s best friend just in time for NFL football to kick off!
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Producer:
Elaine Seward
Writer:
Alexa Billow
Executive Producer:
Adam Dylewski
Scientific consultants:
Nilesh Shah, Ph.D.
Darcy Gentleman, Ph.D.
Kyle Nackers
Music:
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Sam Leopard – Cool Ivy
Sam Leopard – The Gold Melody
Sources:
1: http://gizmodo.com/were-footballs-ever-really-made-of-pigskin-1513061556
2: https://books.google.com/books?id=ARFEAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA74&lpg=PA74&dq=polysulfide+rocket+fuel&source=bl&ots=g0yTWrxwfK&sig=mqy9lxSIeQ8Q7AOBTdEruhkHV0k&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi63fvctJjVAhWCZj4KHaJeDggQ6AEIQjAF#v=onepage&q=polysulfide%20rocket%20fuel&f=false
3: https://www.britannica.com/science/rubber-chemical-compound
here’s an ACS pubs ref citing that plant as a source, if we want something peer reviewed http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/ma1004869
4: http://latexallergyresources.org/cross-reactive-food
5: https://www.britannica.com/technology/vulcanization
6: http://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/superballs/
7: https://connecticuthistory.org/charles-goodyear-and-the-vulcanization-of-rubber/
another Goodyear biography (written in 1939) http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ie50358a003
8: http://nvaughn.weebly.com/vulcanized-rubber.html
9: http://www.andersondevelopment.com/pdf/urethane-101.pdf
Thiokol as rocket fuel http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/cen-v035n043.p024
10: http://www.bbc.com/sport/american-football/30960969
11: http://www.iisrp.com/webpolymers/01finalpolybutadienever2.pdf
12: http://www.espn.com/nba/playoffs/2015/story/_/id/13030284/nba-playoffs-game-ball-road-nba-finals
13: https://pubs.acs.org/cen/whatstuff/stuff/7713scit3.html
14: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-brief-history-of-the-baseball-3685086/