How do Latex Gloves were produced?

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How do Latex Gloves were produced?
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• Latex is the most popular and oldest material
  used in making disposable gloves. But in recent
  times, latex is replaced by nitrile and vinyl.
  But still, now latex is used by Latex gloves
  manufacturers in medical applications for its
  efficiency. 
• History of latex
• The basic raw material for latex gloves
  manufacture has brasiliensis, also known as the
  Para rubber tree. It is native to Brazil and
  Guianas. The cultivation of rubber is very common
  throughout pre-Columbian Central and South
  America. Aztecs and Mayans used it for making
  shoes and balls for playing games.

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• Joseph Priestley coined the term rubber in the
  1770s as it could be used to rub the pencil
  marking. Rubber is very slow to catch globally as
  it was temperamental to work with. During hot
  climatic conditions, it becomes sticky, and in
  cold weather, it becomes brittle. Today most of
  the natural rubber comes from India, Indonesia,
  Malaysia, and Vietnam. 
• Tapping a rubber tree
• Rubber trees are usually ready to tap after seven
  years. A device known as a steel taping knife is
  used to peel the thin strip of the bark of a
  tree. It was mainly cut downward. As soon as a
  cut is done, a milky white sap starts coming out
  from the tree. This sap is collected into a cup
  attached to the tree. This process is done in the
  early morning as the temperature rises, the flow
  becomes slow.

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• After about six hours, the fluids stop. In that
  period, the tree usually fills gallons of
  buckets. The latex is then preserved with
  ammonium. It has a high concentration of water
  and nonrubber content. Furthermore, it contains
  70 of water, resins, ash, glycosides, and sugar.
  The latex is then mixed with different chemicals,
  and after 36 hours, it matures to become compound
  and ready for dipping. 
• Finally, it is used by latex gloves
  manufacturers to build high-class medical gloves.

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