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The chemistry that taught rubber to stop melting in summer and cracking in winter.
means Treating natural rubber with sulfur and heat so it becomes strong, springy, and weatherproof.
from Named for Vulcan, Roman god of fire and forges, after Charles Goodyear stumbled onto the heat-sulfur fix in 1839.
Lucky spillGoodyear discovered it by dropping rubber on a hot stove.
Cross-linksSulfur bridges lock polymer chains into one springy network.
BrokeGoodyear died in debt despite the trillion-dollar industry he sparked.