Sentences with phrase «synthetic gum base»

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The chicle boom continued up until the Great Depression of the 1930s when it collapsed as a result of the general economic malaise and the development of synthetic substitutes for chewing gum base.

The original idea came from Indigenous people who chewed tree resin, but the gum we know today is made in factories using a synthetic base.

After World War II, chemists learned to make synthetic rubber, which eventually replaced most natural rubber as a chewing gum base.