There are many great reasons to have a rubber band ball. You can bounce it, use it to keep all your rubber bands in once place, or squeeze it to strengthen your hand muscles. If you enjoy making your first one, this might even become a hobby. Create a core. You can start with any small object, such ... read more
Rubber is a material that is critical to modern industrial civilization, with applications surrounding us everywhere; yet rubber is probably the least understood material that engineers use. The most notable application of rubber occurs in modern transportation, which relies entirely upon rubber tir... read more
Have you ever wondered how rubber is made? We took a look in to the production of rubber. There are two types of rubber; synthetic and natural rubber. Natural rubber is made from rubber trees and they say money does not grow on trees! Huge plantations of these rubber trees are grown across many acre... read more
Chloroprene rubber (CR, Chloroprene rubber), also known as neoprene rubber, Xinping rubber, is chloroprene (ie 2-chloro-1,3-butadiene) as the main raw material for α-polymerization . It was first produced by DuPont's Wallace Hume Carothers on April 17, 1930. DuPont publicly announced in November 193... read more
In the late 1930s, the United States used over half of the world's natural rubber supply. Today, natural rubber can be found in over 50,000 manufactured products in the United States, and the U.S. imports over 3 billion pounds of natural rubber each year. Over 70 percent of rubber used in modern man... read more