Polybutadiene
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Polybutadiene is a synthetic rubber. It offers high elasticity, high resistance to wear, good strength even without fillers, and excellent abrasion resistance when filled and vulcanized. "Polybutadien
About 70% of polybutadiene is used in tire manufacturing.
Sergei Vasilyevich Lebedev, a Russian chemist, was the first to polymerize butadiene.
Racing tires
A cross section of a golf ball; its core consists of polybutadiene.
Synthetic rubber
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A synthetic rubber is an artificial elastomer. They are polymers synthesized from petroleum byproducts. About 32 million tonnes of rubber is produced annually in the United States, and of that amount
John Boyd Dunlop (c. 1915)
Sheet of synthetic rubber coming off the rolling mill at the plant of Goodrich (1941)
World War II poster about synthetic rubber tires