Rubber classification
Classification according to source and use: natural rubber, synthetic rubber; Synthetic rubber is also divided into general synthetic rubber and special synthetic rubber. Natural rubber Natural rubber mainly comes from clover rubber trees. When the skin of this rubber tree is cut, milky juice, called latex, will flow out. The latex can be condensed, washed, shaped and dried to obtain natural rubber. Synthetic rubber is made by artificial synthesis. Different kinds of rubber can be synthesized by using different raw materials (monomers). From 1900 to 1910, chemist C.D. Harris determined that the structure of natural rubber was a polymer of…