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When a piece of our newly-made hard rubber is dropped on a hard surface, it bounces. It’s real natural rubber, after all! Older hard rubber could be quite tough, too, as long as it was black – colored hard rubber was another story, at least back then. Modern pigments now allow a much broader range of colors without any loss of resilience.
