Abstract
Natural rubber is obtained as a latex from a tree called Hevea Braziliensis. It consists predominantly of cis-1,4-polyisopropene (Fig. 3.1). The word ‘rubber’ is derived from the ability of this material to remove marks from paper, which was noted by Priestley in 1770. Rubber materials are not, however, restricted to natural rubber. They include a great variety of synthetic polymers of similar properties. An elastomer is a polymer which exhibits rubber elastic properties, i.e. a material which can be stretched to several times its original length without breaking and which, on release of the stress, immediately returns to its original length. That is to say, its deformation is reversible.
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Gedde, U.W. (1999). The Rubber Elastic State. In: Polymer Physics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0543-9_3
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