Rubber bands vs. Gum?
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arent rubber bands toxic? they werent made for chewing gum was!
671867
yes, but not as a gum
5690
I have TMJ, and the only thing that has really helped is avoidance of extra chewy things.  "Exercise" just makes it hurt.  My dentist said that for most people there is really very little that can be done for TMJ, and the best thing is to aovid things that enflame it.  Wish I had something better to tell you. ;)
125835
I read somewhere that swallowing gum is just adding fiber to your diet. So...I would say go ahead and swallow it.
701670
Regular Cloth band-aids work better than the plastic kind. My husband is a mechanic and that is the only Band-aid that holds up to the kind on work he does, they are durable.
1168435
IF YOU GRUNT, NEVER USE GUM.\n\nAND BREATHING OUT BY MOUTH IS ALSO NOT A GOOD IDEA.\n\nLET THEM COMPLAINING.YOU PLAY AS YOU NOW.
1069563
there is a product called gumoff that works great
398576
I like rubber band to hold stuff together.  It's very helpful.
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Ok, sorry if this post is confusing. It seems to me that *technically* Thomas Hancock probably invented the rubber band in 1843. Working with Hancock, Stephen Perry patented it two years later in 1845, and generally gets credited with being the inventor.\n\nAnother name that gets floated around is Dr. Jaroslav Kurash, but that rumor seems to have originated with an errant Wikipedia entry. It has also been said that William H. Spencer invented the rubber band in 1923 when he was cutting them out of discarded rubber products. It seems to me that if Perry patented the rubber band in 1845, as multiple sources say he did, it was not invented 78 years later by Spencer.\n\nAnyway, I've pasted the two main versions below, along with a bunch of sources for you to check out. You can decide for yourself.\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nIn 1845, Stephen Perry, of the rubber manufacturing company Messers Perry and Co., patented the rubber band to hold papers or envelopes together.\n\nThe first rubber band was developed in 1843, when an Englishman named Thomas Hancock sliced up a rubber bottle made by some New World Indians. Although these first rubber bands were adapted as garters and waistbands, their usefulness was limited because they were unvulcanized. Hancock himself never vulcanized his invention, but he did advance the rubber industry by developing the masticator machine, a forerunner of the modern rubber milling machine used to manufacture rubber bands as well as other rubber products. In 1845, Hancock's countryman Thomas Perry patented the rubber band and opened the first rubber-band factory. With the combined contributions of Goodyear, Hancock, and Perry, manufacturing effective rubber bands became possible.\n\nhttp://www.answers.com/topic/rubber-band\n\n--------------------------------------------------\n\nHere's the William H. Spencer version:\n\nOn March 7, 1923, William H. Spencer of Alliance, Ohio, obtained rejected inner tubes from the Goodyear Co. and began cutting them into bands in his basement. Spencer, who worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad, began trying to sell his rubber bands to office-supply stores and paper and twine outlets. \n\nOne day he noticed the Akron Beacon Journal blowing across lawns and persuaded that paper to bind them with his bands. He talked the Tulsa World into doing the same, and persuaded grocers to use his rubber band instead of string to secure produce. \n\nSpencer continued working for the railroad for 14 years while building his rubber-band business at his Alliance plant. By 1944 he was able to open a second plant in Hot Springs, Ark. In 1957 he opened another, in Franklin, Ky., and one in Salinas, Calif. in 1988. The Alliance Rubber Co. now produces more than 2 million pounds of rubber bands a month in addition to other office, mailing and packaging products and sells to more than 30 countries. \n\nhttp://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/03/07/loc_ohiodate0307.html
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neither. put in in the freezer, and leave the gum to freeze, then you can just scratch it out
1150750
Finally, someone who agrees. Chewing on a slimy peice of rubber is a disgusting habit, to me it's grosser than chewing tobacco or smoking or any of the other habits commonly considered "gross". The problem, though, is that there are no negative effects of chewing gum so it's not frowned upon like less disgusting (and more harmfull) habits.
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It's the density of the rubber that matters, not the mass of rubber, and there are rubber formulations that are less dense than water.  The easy answer is do the experiment and see.\n\nYou might always want to try it with different temperatures of water inside and outside of the balloon.
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God Bless America.\n\nThe gum will get chewed safely, that's all you need to know.\n\n\n       GWB
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Easy to answer,\n\nWell there are many common ways gum can be dangerous: chokeing, swallowing, playing with it to much...\n\nif you swallow it it will digest in 7 years max, if you choke on it there can be ways to fix that but there is a 50/50 chance you will die or live, don`t play with your gum to much because when germs get on it you can get very sick and end up with a fever i suggest a flue shot because fevers can kill you. If you have braces don`t eat it even if it is ok with your dentist or parents you can still have one half stuck and one half choking. If you use it properly there is no harm what so ever
49053
You can't add bulk with rubber bands but you will get ripped.
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nike.on has rubber band
90210
Okay...From what I can tell the Activ-Flex band-aids are made from Silicone Gel.  Does that help somewhat?