Natural rubber
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Natural rubber, also called China rubber or caoutchouc, is an elastomer (an elastic hydrocarbon polymer) that was originally derived from latex, a milky colloid produced by some plants. The plants would be ‘tapped’, that is, an incision made into the bark of the tree and the sticky, milk colored latex sap collected and refined into a usable rubber. The purified form of natural rubber is the chemical polyisoprene, which can also be produced synthetically. Natural rubber is used extensively in many applications and products, as is synthetic rubber. It is normally very stretchy and flexible and extremely waterproof.
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See also
- Akron, Ohio, center of the rubber industry in the USA
- Charles Greville Williams, researched natural rubber being a polymer of the monomer isoprene
- Condoms, also called "rubbers"
- Emulsion dispersion
- Fordlândia, failed attempt to establish a rubber plantation in Brazil
- Rubber seed oil
- Reinforced rubber
- Resilin, a rubber substitute
- Rubber technology
- Stevenson Plan, historical British plan to stabilize rubber prices
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