Talk:Rubber
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The following was moved from the aricle page: olivier 04:48 Nov 27, 2002 (UTC)
Can anyone expand on this article? I wrote the very first bit, but I have no information on how synthetic rubber is produced! Mark Ryan
I have a half-memory that the seeds were initially smuggled out of Brazil, which, if true, would be the most profitable act of industrial espionage of all time... I need to check on this -- Malcolm Farmer
I am trying to understand why half of the world's rubber is produced synthetically. Is synthetic rubber cheaper or more expensive than natural one? Is it better or worse than natural one? Is not enough natural one produced in the world? AxelBoldt 10:43, 5 May 2004 (UTC)
Edit
I moved the recent addition on Asian natural rubber to the previous paragraph, which deals with natural rubber. I removed the blight concern and link, because there is nothing remarkable that people might be concerned with a crop blight: this is true for any crop, and unless we go into it in some depth — which would be interesting — the squib of sentence was not useful. The link was to a syllabus; from long experience on my own website, syllabus pages very often disappear when the quarter or semester is over. — Bill 17:20, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Synthetic vs Natural
Synthetic rubbers have fundamentally different properties to natural rubbers and are therefore used for different purposes. For example, nitrile rubber has decreased permeability to many solvents and increased abrasion resistance.
I'd suggest the article needs an update as natural rubber and synthetic rubbers need to be more clearly delineated. Also a short monologue on chemical additives and potential allergies would be of use as they are of fundamental importance to a significant minority (natural rubber can cause a potentially fatal allergy).
I will try to address this in the coming weeks.
--John Spashett 09:29, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Where can i found Kautschuk?
Kautschuk
C an you help me? I want to know something about Kautschuk.
