It is preserved in flasks made of wax or gutta-percha. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
Dentists in Europe don't use gutta-percha, only the Americans. '. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
We have also used a piece of gutta-percha to take out the lights. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
And he crumples up his little face like those things in gutta-percha. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
India-rubber, and his rashers gutta-percha, is not a fresh experience. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Rebel A Novel] Reference
It is gutta-percha, the wonderful vegetable juice, which is as firm as. From Wordnik.com. [St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878] Reference
The pin is of gutta-percha, with a D of that beautiful shell set in it. From Wordnik.com. [2006 Field Report 4 « Interactive Dig Johnson's Island – Unlocking a Civil War Prison] Reference
James T. Maston, scratching with his steel hook his gutta-percha cranium. From Wordnik.com. [From the Earth to the Moon] Reference
If a man were made of gutta-percha, his heart would quail at such a moment. From Wordnik.com. [Memories and Portraits] Reference
A broken piece of gutta-percha clattered to the floor as he banged up the phone. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
He had root-canal work, and the gutta-percha was inserted in place of the root. '. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
"That seems easy enough," said Malcolm, "but how do they make it into gutta-percha?". From Wordnik.com. [Among the Trees at Elmridge] Reference
Early gutta-percha gave way to the Balata cover that was developed in the early 1900?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-11-22] Reference
Sumatra is also the home of several trees and plants from which gutta-percha is obtained. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Export duties are levied only on tin, the great product of Sungei Ujong, and gutta-percha. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Chersonese and the way thither] Reference
And you hit replicas of the old gutta-percha balls, which don't travel like today's golf balls. From Wordnik.com. [Relaxed Woods ready to tee off for real] Reference
The finished cordite resembles a cord of gutta-percha, and its colour varies from light to dark brown. From Wordnik.com. [Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise] Reference
What I take to be excoecaria resembles the tree Mr. Walker describes as being probably the gutta-percha. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
But for the convulsive movement of her lips now and then, no gutta-percha doll could be more utterly still. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
These much diminish the value of the cable, as they must all be cut out, the gutta-percha made good, and the cable spliced. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin] Reference
Pathological analysis of Victim GP2 ascertains remnants of a gutta-percha pin in the upper middle right incisor root canal. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
You will remember what I said about insulation, -- how a tiny hole in the gutta-percha would allow the electricity to escape. From Wordnik.com. [St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878] Reference
In 1863, the teenage Bell and his brother Melville made an artificial talking mechanism out of wood, rubber, gutta-percha, and tin. From Wordnik.com. [The Hacker Crackdown]
Doubtless this cable will last for a great length of time, for they find that the gutta-percha covering is improved by the sea-water. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea] Reference
The bundles of conducting wires were each enveloped in gutta-percha, and protected by a wadding of hemp, contained in a metallic covering. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea] Reference
Also, there were moulds of gutta-percha arranged to hold coins in immersion. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Passage] Reference
Some of the first plastics were made out of gutta-percha, shellac, and the horns of animals. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily News - News] Reference
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