{"id":361294,"date":"2010-02-25T04:22:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T09:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds2.feedburner.com:\/\/58cc2fe4a59ab4340772c18b0476a2aa"},"modified":"2010-02-25T04:22:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T09:22:29","slug":"how-is-rubber-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/361294","title":{"rendered":"How Is Rubber Made?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people think that all rubber is made from latex produced from trees.&nbsp;&nbsp;This is not in fact the case.&nbsp;&nbsp;Only about 25-30% of all rubber is made from latex, which is milked from trees.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blurtit.com\/var\/question\/q\/q6\/q62\/q621\/q6218\/q621880_5726_619_1182049935_e1f47c0dae.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blurtit.com\/css\/common\/cc.png\" style=\"vertical-align:text-bottom;width:16px;height:16px;border:0;\" title=\"Creative Commons License\"\/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/19349404@N00\/\" >goosmurf<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The latex is a mixture of organic compounds which are produced in special cells of a tree called Hevea Brasiliensis.&nbsp;&nbsp;The trees are tapped by removing the bark and latex then flows down grooves which have been made in the tree, to collection bowls.&nbsp;&nbsp;Natural rubber is the preferred medium for production of radial tyres.<\/p>\n<p>Artificial rubber is made from petroleum.&nbsp;&nbsp;Petroleum contains many carbon molecules.&nbsp;&nbsp;These are then chemically altered so they become molecules called dienes.&nbsp;&nbsp;These are then re-altered so they form a long chain called polymers and polymers are the finished &#8216;synthetic rubber&#8217;.&nbsp;&nbsp;The growth of artificial rubber stems from the second World War, when it was very hard to source natural latex.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Blurtit\/~4\/n0Qdc2ZxPZY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people think that all rubber is made from latex produced from trees.&nbsp;&nbsp;This is not in fact the case.&nbsp;&nbsp;Only about 25-30% of all rubber is made from latex, which is milked from trees.&nbsp;&nbsp; goosmurf The latex is a mixture of organic compounds which are produced in special cells of a tree called Hevea Brasiliensis.&nbsp;&nbsp;The trees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}