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It's a process called "vulcanization."

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What person or group invented rubber?

rubber is the sap from a tree. cook it down to a syrup then add sulfur to crosslink the polymer chains and you have usable vulcanized rubber.


Why sulphur is used in car tires?

Natural Rubber is like chewing gum.To make a stable usable product you mix in sulphur and heat the mixture up. This is called Vulcanization.This is how tires, Bouncy balls, etc were made until the second world war.Since then the process is similar but the ingredients have change to give us synthetic rubber.


What is made up of usable amounts of metallic elements?

If you mean a mixture of metallic elements, it is an alloy.


What is made up of a usable amount of metallic elements?

If you mean a mixture of metallic elements, it is an alloy.


What is made up of usable amounts of metallic metal?

If you mean a mixture of metallic elements, it is an alloy.


Different between vulcanized rubber and natural rubber?

Vulcanized rubber is process that changes the properties of natural rubber so that it is more usable for products. Natural rubber hardens rock-solid in freezing temperature and melts into goo in summer heat. For an interesting reprint of a Readers Digest article on the invention of rubber - see the attach link.


What is slurry cement?

mixture of water-cement-fine sand in a certain ratio which is usable to fill gaps, voids and other repairing purpose


What does 'usable water' mean?

usable water


Is usable an adjective?

Yes, usable is an adjective to describe a noun as able to be used; for example usable information.


What part of speech is the word usable?

Usable is an adjective used to describe something/someone.


What is raw rubber called?

Rubber is made from extract of SAP tree Natural rubber, also called India rubber or caoutchouc, is an elastomer (an elastic hydrocarbon polymer) that was originally derived from latex, a milky colloid produced by some plants. The plants would be 'tapped', that is, an incision made into the bark of the tree and the latex sap collected and refined into a usable rubber. The purified form of natural rubber is the chemical polyisoprene, which can also be produced synthetically. Natural rubber is used extensively in many applications and products, as is synthetic rubber.


How do you spell usable?

"Usable" is spelled as U-S-A-B-L-E.