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How Plastic Replaced Elephant Ivory in Billiard Balls 🎱

Billiard balls were once carved from the hard ivory of elephant teeth.

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Key Points

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Ivory from elephant tusks was used for game balls.

Celluloid is an early plastic that could be shaped like balls.

The same material was used to make the thin sheets for early movies.

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Inventors created a new material called celluloid, a kind of early plastic.

Celluloid was cheaper, safer, and later became the film that showed the first movies.

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ivory

hard white material from elephant tusks

celluloid

first type of plastic used for many things, including movie film

film

thin strips that hold pictures to show a movie

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