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Latex is a natural ingredient that comes from rubber trees in the form of a milky liquid. There are thousands of species of plants that produce different types of latex, including the Chicle tree that yields the raw material for producing the rubbery material in chewing gum.
The LaTeX Project. LaTeX, which is pronounced Â«Lah-techÂ» or Â«Lay-techÂ» (to rhyme with Â«blechÂ» or Â«Bertolt BrechtÂ»), is a document preparation system for high-quality typesetting. It is most often used for medium-to-large technical or scientific documents but it can be used for almost any form of publishing.