• A synthetic rubber is an artificial elastomer. They are polymers synthesized from petroleum byproducts. About 32 million metric tons of rubbers are produced...
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    EPDM rubber (ethylene propylene diene monomer rubber) is a type of synthetic rubber that is used in many applications. EPDM is an M-Class rubber under...
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  • Nitrile rubber, also known as nitrile butadiene rubber, NBR, Buna-N, and acrylonitrile butadiene rubber, is a synthetic rubber derived from acrylonitrile...
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    for rubber-like materials began to outstrip natural rubber supplies by the end of the 19th century, leading to the synthesis of synthetic rubber in 1909...
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    Polybutadiene [butadiene rubber, BR] is a synthetic rubber. It offers high elasticity, high resistance to wear, good strength even without fillers, and...
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    known as the United States Rubber Company, now Uniroyal, is an American manufacturer of tires and other synthetic rubber-related products, as well as...
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    Tire (redirect from Rubber tires)
    deforming the surface. The materials of modern pneumatic tires are synthetic rubber, natural rubber, fabric, and wire, along with carbon black and other chemical...
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  • accelerators for manufacture of synthetic rubber and soon after extended the research to include antioxidants for gasoline and rubber, floatation agents, insecticides...
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    Butyl rubber, sometimes just called "butyl", is a synthetic rubber, a copolymer of isobutylene with isoprene. The abbreviation IIR stands for isobutylene...
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    transportation products (vibration control) Rubber Track Isoprene monomer Synthetic rubber for medical applications Synthetic rubber for chewing gum Veyance Technologies...
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    hardening of other (synthetic) rubbers via various means. Examples include silicone rubber via room temperature vulcanizing and chloroprene rubber (neoprene) using...
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  • Pharmaceutical drug Plastic Synthetic phonics Synthetic rubber This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Synthetic. If an internal link...
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    Neoprene (redirect from Neoprene rubber)
    Neoprene (also polychloroprene) is a family of synthetic rubbers that are produced by polymerization of chloroprene. Neoprene exhibits good chemical stability...
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    Gōngsī) is a Taiwanese manufacturer of automobile tires and other synthetic rubber products. The company's products include automotive tires,[clarification...
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    Styrene-butadiene or styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) describe families of synthetic rubbers derived from styrene and butadiene (the version developed by...
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    derived from the butadiene-based synthetic rubber and the chemical symbol for sodium (Na), a process of synthetic rubber production developed in Germany...
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    tire treads, and improvements in manufacture of rubber products and the processing of synthetic rubber Virgil A. Martin, Los Angeles, California, City...
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    A rubber glove is a glove made out of natural or synthetic rubber. The term 'rubber' refers to durable, waterproof and elastic material made from natural...
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    is a specialized type of rubber cement that contains a cleaning/degreasing solvent and an abrasion-resistant synthetic rubber. It is a registered trademark...
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    the inventor of polybutadiene synthetic rubber, the first commercially viable and mass-produced type of synthetic rubber. Lebedev was born in 1874 in Lublin...
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    Eraser (redirect from Rubber (eraser))
    various shapes and colors. Less expensive erasers are made from synthetic rubber and synthetic soy-based gum, but more expensive or specialized erasers are...
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  • business into a major corporation by investing in natural gas and synthetic rubber operations. Kenneth Stanley Adams was born August 31, 1899, in Horton...
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    Butadiene (category U.S. Synthetic Rubber Program)
    condensed to a liquid. It is important industrially as a precursor to synthetic rubber. The molecule can be viewed as the union of two vinyl groups. It is...
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    formaldehyde. In 1928, synthetic fuels were invented using Fischer-Tropsch process. In 1929, Walter Bock invented synthetic rubber Buna-S which is made...
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    rubber sourced from waste tires. Rubber mulch typically consists of waste tire bits or nuggets of synthetic rubber obtained from tires that have been...
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    2015. Synthetic Rubbers Kumho Petrochemical's main business is synthetic rubbers. It has built up market leadership at general synthetic rubbers such as...
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  • produce polyisoprene latex Latex clothing, made from latex rubber Synthetic latex or synthetic rubber LaTeX, a document preparation system and markup language...
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  • Kraton Polymers, and used as synthetic replacements for rubber. Kraton polymers offer many of the properties of natural rubber, such as flexibility, high...
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    in vehicle suspension systems, where a bushing made of rubber (or, more often, synthetic rubber or polyurethane) separates the faces of two metal objects...
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  • developed styrene-butadiene copolymer by emulsion polymerization as a synthetic rubber (SBR). Walter Bock was born on January 10, 1895, in the small village...
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