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A drawing note reads "Buna-N, 70 Shore A, 33% ACN", and three questions follow immediately: will the part hold in hot oil, will it survive a cold st...

Ask three people what rubber is and you get three different answers: a tree in Southeast Asia, the tyre on a car, and a line on a drawing that says ...

In a typical tire tread compound, the rubber polymer makes up only about 47 percent of the total weight. The rest arrives at the mixer as carbon bla...

Rubber products are ordered by numbers, not names: a 3 mm EPDM sheet at 70 Shore A, a 10 mm antistatic mat rated to 10^6 ohm, or a two-ply belt that...

A tire sidewall, a forklift mat, a hydraulic seal and the gasket inside a food pump are all called rubber, yet no two of them use the same compound....

A maintenance crew at an injection moulding plant replaces the same nitrile O-ring in the hydraulic power unit every three weeks. The oil is mineral ...