Rubber Properties
What is rubber colour ?
The rough gums (natural or synthetic) present a range of colour
going from the white at brown dark. Finished rubber products are
mainly black due to the adjunction of carbon black to the mixing,
but they could also be white, red, blue, …
What are rubber qualities ?
Its intrinsic qualities: malleability, elasticity, great mechanical
resistance, adherence to any types of surface contributed for more
than a century to make rubber an essential material used by the
rubber industry.
Hyperelasticity
It is the only material offering such a capacity of deformation: it
can usually lengthen up to 500 % and in certain cases up to 1000 %
i.e. we then speak of hyperelasticity.
Rubbers preserve their elasticity when they are subjected to very
great variations in temperature, from – 50 to + 150 °C. This
property makes a material impossible to circumvent of it for
aeronautical, space applications or under engine cowling.
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Did you know that …
Latex is frequently used as additive of other materials. It
is the case of paintings for the frontages. Indeed rubber
addition allows improving the sealing and the flexibility of
the product. Rubber can also be incorporated into bitumens,
plastics, textiles and oils.
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