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2 unusual facts about Gutta-percha


Electrical tape

The original electrical insulating tape was made of cloth tape impregnated with Chatterton's compound, an adhesive material manufactured using Gutta-percha.

Power cable

Gutta-percha insulation used on the first submarine cables was, however, unsuitable for building wiring use since it deteriorated rapidly when exposed to air.


Alphonse Milne-Edwards

Milne-Edwards also described at least one plant taxon; a species of gutta-percha collected from the island of Grande Comore, Comoros by ornithologist Léon Humblot, which Milne-Edwards named Isonandra gutta.

Gutta på tur

Gutta på tur (roughly translates as "The Boys on a Trip") was a Norwegian travel-TV show starring Arne Hjeltnes, Arne Brimi (famous chef), and professional cross-country skiers Vegard Ulvang and Bjørn Dæhlie, the most-winning athlete in the history of the Winter Olympic Games.

Jwala Gutta

Jwala's father, Kranti Gutta, hailed from a family of freedom fighters and Leftists.

Vegard Ulvang

Ulvang is also a part of Norwegian TV 2's television travel-series Gutta på tur, together with fellow skier Bjørn Dæhlie, TV personality Arne Hjeltnes and chef Arne Brimi.


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