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Use of rubber

Rubber can be used in transportation, tires are the main accessories, and it can also be used to make medical gas storage bags, radiation aprons, gloves, ice packs, hot water bottles and so on. It is also widely used in military and national defense.

Rubber is a kind of high elastic polymer material with reversible deformation, which is elastic at room temperature, can produce large deformation under the action of small external force, and can recover to its original state after removing external force. Rubber is a completely amorphous polymer with a low glass transition temperature and a molecular weight of several hundred thousand. Rubber is divided into natural rubber and synthetic rubber. Natural rubber is made from gum extracted from rubber tree, rubber grass and other plants, while synthetic rubber is made by polymerization of various monomers. Rubber products are widely used in all aspects of industry or life.

Rubber industry is one of the important basic industries of national economy. Not only provide people with daily necessities, medical and other light industrial rubber products, but also provide various rubber production equipment or rubber parts to heavy industries and emerging industries such as mining, transportation, construction, machinery and electronics. It can be seen that there are many kinds of products in the rubber industry, and the backward industries are very broad.