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truck tires being removed from their molds rubber trees latex dripping into a cup from a tapped rubber tree Latex flows from a cut in the bark of a rubber tree into a small bucket on a lush green plantation in Thailand, with rows of rubber trees in the background. sheets of natural rubber coagulated from latex being passed between rollers sheets of natural rubber hanging from racks in a smoke room for final drying smoked sheets of natural rubber being inspected and trimmed before being packed into bales A three-stage diagram shows the emulsion-polymerization process: monomer droplets, free-radical initiators, and surfactant molecules are added to a water bath; surfactants form micelles around monomers before polymerization; and, after polymerization, latex particles are suspended in the water. Labels identify key components and the transformation from monomer to latex particle.
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Type Description Contributor Date
New media added. Jun 04, 2020
Modified title of Web site: Kids' Macrogalleria! - Rubber. May 23, 2016
Media added. Apr 21, 2016
Add new Web site: Kids' Macrogalleria! - Rubber. Apr 11, 2016
Add new Web site: International Institute of Synthetic Rubber Producers,Inc - Brief History and Introduction of Rubber. Oct 01, 2015
Add new Web site: Royal Society of Chemistry - Chemistry in its Element - Rubber. Sep 28, 2015
Figures on world production of natural rubber updated and provided historical context. Jun 22, 2011
Article thoroughly revised. May 13, 2010
Photos of tire molding, rubber-tree tapping, and latex rolling and drying added. May 13, 2010
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Science - How Rubber Works. Feb 10, 2009
Article revised and updated. Apr 24, 2008
Added new Web site: A Brief Natural History of the Latex Rubber Tree. Dec 11, 2007
Added new Web site: A Brief Natural History of the Latex Rubber Tree. Dec 11, 2007
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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