Rubber

About Rubber Rubber is a material, which can stretch and shrink. It is a polymer. It can be produced from natural sources (e.g. natural rubber) or can be synthesised on an industrial scale. For example, car tires are usually made from Styrene-butadiene or styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR). These materials have good abrasion resistance and good aging stability when protected by additives. In 2012, more than 5.4 million tonnes of SBR were processed worldwide. Many other things are made from rubber, like gloves, tires, plugs, and masks. Natural rubber, also called caucho or caoutchouc, as initially produced, consists of polymers of the organic compound isoprene, with minor impurities of other organic compounds, plus water. Density of Rubber Typical densities of various substances are at atmospheric pressure. Density is defined as the mass per unit volume. It is an intensive property, which is mathematically defined as mass divided by volume: ρ = m/V In words, the density (ρ) of a substance is the total mass (m) of that substance divided by the total volume (V) occupied by that substance. The standard SI unit is kilograms per cubic meter ( kg/m 3). The Standard English unit is pounds mass per cubic foot ( lbm/ft 3). Density of Rubber is 1100 kg/m 3. Example: Density Calculate the height of a cube made of Rubber, which weighs one metric ton. Solution: Density is defined as the mass per unit volume. It is mathematically defined as mass divided by volume: ρ = m/V As the volume of a ...

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• • by Last updated: June 5, 2022. Think of rubber and you probably think of elastic bands, car tires, or pencil erasers. But this super-stretchy material actually finds its way into tens of thousands of different products—everything from rubber stamps and waterproof shoes to surfing Photo: Half of the world's rubber is used to make vehicle tires—and at least half of them are wasted in landfills, burned in incinerators, or otherwise dumped. Contents • • • • • • • • • What is rubber? When people talk about "rubber", they don't usually specify what kind. There are many different kinds of rubber, but they all fall into two broad types: natural rubber (latex—grown from plants) and synthetic rubber (made artificially in a chemical plant or laboratory). Commercially, the most important synthetic rubbers are styrene butadiene (SBR), polyacrylics, and polyvinyl acetate (PVA); other kinds include polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polychloroprene (better known as neoprene), and various types of polyurethane. Although natural rubber and synthetic rubbers are similar in some ways, they're made by entirely different processes and chemically quite different. Natural rubber Photo: Rubber bands are a very familiar everyday use of latex rubber. Natural rubber is made from a runny, milky white liquid called latex that oozes from certain plants when you cut into them. (Common dandelions, for example, produce latex; if you snap off their stems, you can see the latex dripping out from them. In theory,...

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Where Does Rubber Come From? History of Rubber The history of rubber is quite fascinating. The stories of how rubber was discovered vary depending on who is telling the story. One story tells of a Mayas Indian woman who was walking through the rain forest gathering edibles when she came across a crying tree. She took a sample of the tears back to the tribe’s chief who found the latex substance unique. Maybe you have heard that Christopher Columbus was responsible for discovering rubber after visiting Haiti in the 1490’s and watching the natives play with a bouncy ball. Or even better, how a French astronomer in 1736 was sent to Peru by his government and returned with samples of a white fluid consistency of honey. Rubber In America Though, these stories have great likelihood, the story with the most impact on rubber as we know it today is Charles Goodyear from Trenton, NJ. You may think Charles Goodyear was the founder of Goodyear Tire Company, but you would be incorrect. The company was named after Charles, but did not go into business until years after his death. Rather, Mr. Goodyear is considered the first inventor to vulcanize rubber. It all started after Mr. Goodyear walked into a store to purchase a rubber life-preserver in 1834. After his purchase, he became obsessed with the material and how it could be useful. Shortly after, Mr. Goodyear was granted a U.S. Government contract to make rubber mail bags, but in making the mail bags, they began to decompose quite rapi...

What makes rubber so elastic? Like plastic, rubber is a polymer, which is a chain of repeating units called monomers. In rubber, the monomer is a carbon compound called isoprene that has two carbon-carbon double bonds. The latex fluid that seeps from rubber trees has many isoprene molecules. As the latex dries, the isoprene molecules crowd together and one isoprene molecule attacks a carbon-carbon double bond of a neighboring molecule. One of the double bonds breaks, and the electrons rearrange to form a bond between the two isoprene molecules. The process continues until you have a long strands of many isoprene molecules linked like a chain. These long strands are called polyisoprene polymer. Each polyisoprene molecule contains thousands of isoprene monomers. As the drying continues, the polyisoprene strands stick together by forming electrostatic bonds, much like the attraction between opposite poles of two bar However, temperature changes can affect the electrostatic interactions between the polyisoprene strands in latex rubber. Hot temperatures reduce the interactions and make the rubber more fluid (sticky). Colder temperatures increase the interactions and make the rubber more solid (hard, brittle). In the early 1800s, several scientists and inventors set out to make rubber more durable. One famous inventor, Charles Goodyear, reasoned that you could reduce rubber's stickiness by mixing it with various dry powders. He experimented by combining talcum and other powders ...

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