{"id":675206,"date":"2010-02-25T04:22:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T09:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds2.feedburner.com:\/\/58cc2fe4a59ab4340772c18b0476a2aa"},"modified":"2010-02-25T04:22:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T09:22:29","slug":"how-is-rubber-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/675206","title":{"rendered":"How Is Rubber Made?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some people think that all rubber is made from latex produced from trees.  This is not in fact the case.  Only about 25-30% of all rubber is made from latex, which is milked from trees.  <\/p>\n

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The latex is a mixture of organic compounds which are produced in special cells of a tree called Hevea Brasiliensis.  The trees are tapped by removing the bark and latex then flows down grooves which have been made in the tree, to collection bowls.  Natural rubber is the preferred medium for production of radial tyres.<\/p>\n

Artificial rubber is made from petroleum.  Petroleum contains many carbon molecules.  These are then chemically altered so they become molecules called dienes.  These are then re-altered so they form a long chain called polymers and polymers are the finished ‘synthetic rubber’.  The growth of artificial rubber stems from the second World War, when it was very hard to source natural latex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some people think that all rubber is made from latex produced from trees.  This is not in fact the case.  Only about 25-30% of all rubber is made from latex, which is milked from trees.   goosmurf The latex is a mixture of organic compounds which are produced in special cells of a tree called Hevea Brasiliensis.  The trees […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3561,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2PEq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3561"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}