Synthetic rubber

material · 1931 · Electric age

Rubber made from butadiene (Lebedev, 1910; industrially in 1931).

Inventor: Wallace Carothers.

Where it is used

• Pneumatic tyre — is material for. Modern tyres are mostly synthetic rubber.

What it is a kind of

• Polymer — is a kind of. An elastomer.
• Neoprene — includes. A synthetic rubber.

Things built in a similar way

• Natural rubber — works like. A replacement for natural rubber.

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