Thermoplastic
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A thermoplastic, or thermosoftening plastic, is any plastic polymer material that becomes pliable or moldable at a certain elevated temperature and solidifies upon cooling.
Stress-strain graph of a thermoplastic material
Plastic household items
Plastic objects
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.