NOUN
- a whitish rubber derived from the coagulated milky latex of gutta-percha trees; used for insulation of electrical cables
How To Use gutta-percha In A Sentence
- The tusky but soft-hearted little brute kept nodding his round, sparsely covered head while he listened, exuding a smell of lavender-water, cigars, and gutta-percha. The Freelands
- High-heat gutta-percha has been used as a base in deep occlusal, buccal, and approximal cavities, completing the fillings with tin. Tin Foil and Its Combinations for Filling Teeth
- Dr. Lowell's initial attempt at the golf tee was made of gutta-percha, a material used to make false teeth and golf balls in the 19th century.
- The exports of Rejang are many, the principal ones being gutta-percha, rattans, and bilian wood. On the Equator
- Lightweight wire, collapsible steel, whalebone, horsehair, and inflatable gutta-percha were used at various times to create or strengthen bustles.
- We also have gutta-percha, sago, rattan, and ketchup.
- Morefield Storey, one of Sumners biographers, says Brookss cane was a heavy gutta-percha cane and that the blows were continued until the cane broke. On the Crime Against Kansas
- We have Vernetta Lopez and all the other Eurasians on telly and radio, and we have the de Souzas and the D'Almeidas, who made their fortune harvesting gutta-percha which was used to insulate telegraph wires.
- Undaunted by the loss of hundreds of miles of wire wrapped in gutta-percha, canvas and tar, his company tried for a fourth time in 1866, constructing a further 1800 miles of cable.