They're usually made of a plastic resin.
Celluloid was discovered by John Wesley Hyatt in 1869 as a substitute for ivory in billiard balls.
Plastic was a material created as a cheap substitute for ivory. Ivory at the time was mainly used to make pool balls, but elephants became illegal to hunt so they needed an alternative.
Ivory is the answer
There is real ivory- a natural animal product, such as elephant ivory, walrus ivory, etc, and there is artificial manmade ivory.
Elforyn Elforyn is a high grade ivory substitute material with a high mineral content. It can be processed like natural ivory - carved, turned, milled, etc. It glues well with Cyanoacrylate & Epoxy glues and can take a clear coat finish. Elforyn is chalk resistant, thermo-formable, chips while machining, and can be polished to a beautiful luster if desired. It reproduces all the typical characteristics of ivory (also playability) with a natural ivory grain structure, and is fluorescent under a black light.
no, it is a different kind of ivory
No. They have some righteous teeth, but no ivory.
who discovered plasticsEduard Simon
Ivory produced before the production of ivory was banned.
the mandrin ivory has a tint of orange in it
Ivory