styrene-butadiene rubber: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As	Buna rubber • GR-S • Buna S • Government Rubber-Styrene • SBR

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The random copolymer arrangement of styrene-butadiene copolymer. Each coloured ball in the molecular structure diagram represents a styrene or butadiene repeating unit as shown in the chemical structure formula.

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Topics

styrene styrene-butadiene and styrene-isoprene block copolymers butadiene synthetic rubber butyl rubber ethylene-propylene copolymer butadiene rubber neoprene nitrile rubber copolyester elastomer fluoroelastomer polyacrylate elastomer

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Waldo Semon

American chemist