> As an aside; plastic was actually invented as a replacement for ivory.
> So many elephants had been killed to satisfy the demand for billiard balls
> that the price of ivory was going through the roof just as billiards was
> becoming really popular. So a way was found to use nitrocellulose (which, as
> rayon, had been made in the form of fiber as a silk substitute) in bulk form.
> It was often made with a grain pattern to imitate ivory. At the time it was
> hot stuff, very high-class.
And inflammable, to boot..
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