About Rubber

Rubber, is the generic terms of  polymers and chemical compounds which has  high elasticity in general.It's also one of the synthetic materials, so which kind of categories can the rubber be divided  ?1. According to the source classification, rubber can be divided into natural rubber, synthetic rubber, recycled rubber.Natural rubber comes from clover rubber tree and silver leaf rubber chrysanthemum.Synthetic rubber comes from petrochemical raw materials.Recycled rubber comes from scrap rubber products.2. According to the application of classification, rubber can be divided into general rubber, special rubber, special rubber.Special rubber also includes anti-X-ray rubber, shock-absorbing rubber, magnetic rubber, thermal rubber, conductive rubber, bio-rubber.3. According to materialized state classification, rubber can be divided into raw rubber, cooked rubber, hard rubber, rubber.4. According to the shape's classification, rubber can be divided into solid rubber, milky rubber, powder rubber, liquid rubber.

Rubber is a polymer with the property of elasticity which, when modified and strengthened by a curing process called vulcanization, is known as a ‘thermoset elastomer’. Each of the monomers which link to form the polymer is usually made of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and/or silicon.

There are two main types of rubber, natural and synthetic. The former is made from the latex derived ‘naturally’ from the rubber tree, while the latter is synthesized from chemicals sourced from petroleum refining.