"Balata" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Balata. A gum used as an insulating material. It is the inspissated juice of a sapotaceous tree, the bullet tree, Mimusops globosa, of tropical America, from the Antilles to Guiana. It is intermediate in character between caoutchouc and gutta percha. It is superior to gutta percha in some respects, ...
— The Standard Electrical Dictionary - A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice - of Electrical Engineering • T. O'Conor Slone
... "Nine hundred balata," he stated definitely, matching the frank directness of this unusual shopper, and incidentally ...
— The Players • Everett B. Cole |
