Hello everyone, how you doing?? this mother earth who supports all the living beings on this planet has a special power, that is the power to accept all the things created by nature in her (earth), destroy them and turn them into dust. At the same time, most of the man-made materials cannot be decomposed by the earth like this. Plastic is one of the man-made products that cannot be destroyed by the earth. We are going to know how it was formed through today's post..!

It is no exaggeration to say that man learns the basic formula from which most things are made from nature. In that way, he saw the bird and created the airplane and heard the echo and created the radio. In that way, when the idea of ​​creating plastic came to man, it is not a lie if he saw the 'natural plastic' created by nature. Ah.., what is that 'natural plastic' you have never heard of.? Horns of cattle including cows are the 'natural plastic' created by nature.

It is no exaggeration to say that studies of animal (especially cow) horns in the eighteenth century were the catalyst for the later development of plastics. At the end of various researches, man came to know by the eighteenth century that the horns of cattle are made of milk proteins (Casein). Although cattle horns look like plastic, their horns are biodegradable...!

Following this, chemists from various countries were actively involved in the effort to make plastic from the rubber milk naturally obtained from rubber trees. In this case, in 1839 Charles Goodyear (Charles Goodyear, 1800 – 1860 AD), an American inventor (American Inventor) found a method of making Vulcanizing Rubber by mixing Sulfur (Sulfur) with the milk (Rubber Milk) obtained from rubber trees and heating it. It can be said that this discovery became a crutch for the creation of synthetic plastics.

Following Charles Goodyear's discovery, Alexander Parkes (1813-1890 AD), a metallurgist specialist from England, discovered the world's first synthetic plastic called Parkesine in 1856 to the surprise of the world.He prepared it by heating cellulose obtained from plants with nitric acid. This plastic was malleable when heated and hardened when cooled to return to its original hardness, making it easy to shape the plastic into desired shapes.

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