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  2. List of chewing gum brands - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of chewing gum brands in the world. Chewing gum is a type of gum made for chewing, and dates back at least 5,000 years. Modern chewing gum was originally made of chicle, a natural latex. By the 1960s, chicle was replaced by butadiene-based synthetic rubber which is cheaper to manufacture. Most chewing gums are considered polymers ...

  3. List of periodontal diseases - Wikipedia

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    Classification. An internationally agreed classification formulated at the World Workshop in Clinical Periodontics in 1989 divided periodontal diseases into 5 groups: adult periodontitis, early-onset periodontitis, periodontitis associated with systemic disease, necrotizing ulcerative periodontitis and refractory periodontitis. [ 1] In 1993 at ...

  4. American Chicle Company - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Adams (May 4, 1818 – February 7, 1905) was a 19th-century American scientist and inventor who is regarded as a founder of the chewing gum industry. Adams conceived the idea while working as a secretary to former Mexican leader Antonio López de Santa Anna, who chewed a natural gum called chicle. Adams first tried to formulate the gum ...

  5. Chewing gum - Wikipedia

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    The stickiness of gum results from this hydrophobic nature, as gum can form bonds and stick when it makes contact with oily surfaces [2] such as sidewalks, skin, hair, or the sole of one's shoe. To make matters worse, unsticking the gum is a challenge because the long polymers of the gum base stretch, rather than break.

  6. Gummy candy - Wikipedia

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    Gummy candy. Gummies, gummi candies, gummy candies, or jelly sweets are a broad category of gelatin -based chewable sweets. Gummy bears, Sour Patch Kids, and Jelly Babies are widely popular and are a well-known part of the sweets industry. Gummies are available in a wide variety of shapes, most commonly seen as colorful depictions of living ...

  7. Hubba Bubba - Wikipedia

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    Hubba Bubba is a brand of bubble gum produced by Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, a subsidiary of Mars, Incorporated. [ 1] Introduced in the United States in 1979, the bubble gum got its name from the phrase "Hubba Hubba", which some military personnel in World War II used to express approval. [ 2] The main gimmick used to promote the gum is that, as ...

  8. Natural gum - Wikipedia

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    Humans have used natural gums for various purposes, including chewing and the manufacturing of a wide range of products – such as varnish and lacquerware.Before the invention of synthetic equivalents, trade in gum formed part of the economy in places such as the Arabian peninsula (whence the name "gum arabic"), West Africa, [3] East Africa and northern New Zealand ().

  9. Glossary of video game terms - Wikipedia

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    A form of artificial intelligence which takes data based on how the player performs and uses it to learn to better counter the player. [citation needed] add-on See downloadable content. adds A term used commonly in role-playing video game s, MMORPGs and beat-'em-ups, referring to the "additional enemies" called in by bosses during encounters.