rubber curing
Heat-hardening raw latex
Rubber curing is the chemical process that transforms raw rubber into a durable, elastic material.
Heat and additives—typically sulfur—create molecular cross-links that give rubber its bounce and resilience.
Without curing, rubber remains sticky and weak.
The process is also called vulcanization: The tires undergo rubber curing at high temperatures.
- vulcanizationChemically strengthening raw rubber
- sulfurYellow combustible element
- heatTransferred thermal energy
- heat treatmentThermal processing of materials
- hot pressHeated glossing apparatus
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- chemical bondscovalent bond, covalent bonds, ionic bond, ionic bonds, ionic
material transformation direction
rubber curingdevulcanization
Reversing rubber's crosslinking process
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