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a circle of pure potential energy, patiently waiting to either organize your life or sting your sibling.
means A small loop of elastic rubber used to hold objects together by stretching around them.
from A straightforward compound of "rubber" and "band." "Rubber" got its name because early samples of the material were used to rub out pencil marks — Joseph Priestley noted this erasing trick in the 18th century, and the name stuck even as the substance found a thousand other uses. "Band" comes from old Germanic roots meaning something that binds or ties (a cousin of "bind" and "bond"). The patented elastic loop itself dates to the mid-19th century, when Stephen Perry of London filed for the vulcanized rubber band — turning stretchy sap into the office and slingshot staple we know today.
- heat trick
- stretch one and it warms; relax it, it cools
- weird physics
- heated rubber contracts instead of expanding
- first patent
- Stephen Perry patented it in 1845 London
- world record
- largest rubberband ball weighed over 9,000 pounds
- molecular chaos
- elasticity comes from tangled polymer chains craving disorder
silly bandz — colorful rubber band bracelets craze that peaked in 2010 with kids collecting thousands
rubber band ball — joel waul's world record ball made of 700,000+ rubber bands, weighing 9,032 pounds