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ebonite

A dark, textured object resembling a stylized horn or hook, intricately carved with swirling patterns, set against a black background.

A hard, black rubber produced by vulcanizing natural rubber with roughly 25 to 40 per cent sulfur by mass, well above the few per cent used for tires. Marketed under names including vulcanite, it was the dominant rigid plastic of the nineteenth century: pipe stems, fountain pen barrels, bowling balls, denture bases, telephone receivers. Bakelite displaced it from the 1910s onward.

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