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What does latex mean?

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Noun
  1. (medicine) A clear liquid believed to be a component of a humour or other bodily fluid (esp. plasma and lymph)
  2. The milky sap of several trees that coagulates on exposure to air; used to make rubber.
  3. An emulsion of rubber in water, used in adhesives and the like.
  4. (uncountable) Natural latex rubber, especially non-vulcanized rubber, such as is used in making latex gloves, latex condoms, and latex clothing.
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Technicians in white coats, latex gloves, and hairnets walk the halls and move about the lab purposefully.
Rachael says initially she uses different layers of acrylic to build up a painted surface on the canvas, a layered process of paint and latex.
So it would appear that my chances of seeing a bearded man walking around in leather chaps and a latex nun's wimple are doubly-remote.
As a result, latex modified mortar and concrete have an improved waterproofness over ordinary mortar and concrete.
It is one of those types of plants that if you cut the stem, it exudes a sticky white sort of latex.
This product is even VAE modified latex, characterized by inocuity, insipidity, high drying speed, strong viscidity and firm adhibiting.

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