Natural rubber chemical nature

Rubber. The mbber industry consumes finely ground metallic selenium and Selenac (selenium diethyl dithiocarbamate, R. T. Vanderbilt). Both are used with natural mbber and styrene—butadiene mbber (SBR) to increase the rate of vulcanization and improve the aging and mechanical properties of sulfudess and low sulfur stocks. Selenac is also used as an accelerator in butyl mbber and as an activator for other types of accelerators, eg, thiazoles (see Rubber chemicals). Selenium compounds are useflil as antioxidants (qv), uv stabilizers, (qv), bonding agents, carbon black activators, and polymerization additives. Selenac improves the adhesion of polyester fibers to mbber. 

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Occupational health and safety in the rubber industry is discussed with reference to UK, US and European legislation. The review covers both natural and synthetic rubber industries. The first section outlines the laws affecting health and safety in the industry and the remainder presents specific health and safety issues of interest to employers and employees. Industrial safety is examined with reference to equipment, fire and explosions, solvents, epidemiology, NR latex allergy, skin irritations and dermatitis, dust and fume control, work-related musculoskeletal disorders, nitrosamines, 1,3-butadiene, and handling of rubber chemicals. 484 refs. 

A detailed review is presented of the literature on cutaneous reactions to rubber, the aspects covered including latex allergy, irritant contact dermatitis and allergic contact dermatitis. The adverse cutaneous reactions to rubber occurring following industrial and occupational or consumer exposure to rubber chemicals or products or to natural rubber latex proteins are discussed. 261 refs. 

Natural rubber, chemically speaking poly(W.v-1,4-isoprene), is a natural polymer derived from Hevea brasiliensis and various other tropical plants like Castilloa elastica [147]. This natural polymer is mainly produced in Asia and the tropics in high, industrially relevant, amounts (e.g., 9.7 Mio mto in 2007). Apart from its usual use as an elastomeric material, some research was devoted onto the metathesis degradation (depolymerization) of natural rubber with ethylene in a CM fashion. It was believed that metathesis of natural rubber is impossible, until a pioneering... 

In appearance, HR resembles natural crepe rubber, since it is an aliphatic, hydrocarbon polymer the density being the minimum (0.91) attainable for elastic materials of this type. In HR, the original unsaturation is very small, and even this low unsaturation is greatly reduced and may even be entirely eliminated during the compounding and curing process. The fact that once vulcanised it is extremely resistant to chemical attack is understandable because it becomes, after vulcanisation, not only a nonthermoplastic strong elastic material, but also essentially a chemically saturated product as well. This means that whilst physically vulcanised HR resembles soft vulcanised natural rubber, chemically it may be considered most similar to ebonite almost devoid of any unsaturation. 

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Vulcanization is the most important natural rubber chemical reaction. Most applications require cross-Unking via vulcanization to increase resiliency and strength. Exceptions are crepe rubber shoe soles and rubber cements. There are a number of methods for sulfur vulcanization, with certain methods producing polysulfide crosslinking and other methods producing the more monosulfidic crosslinks. 

Allergic contact dermatitis is the most important occupational skin disease among painters. The consequences can be serious the sensitized workers may, for instance, have been obliged to change their occupation (Mathias 1984 Holmes 1993). Since the 1970s, synthetic resins have replaced turpentine as the most important causes of sensitization caused by paints (Mathias 1984 Jolanki 1991 Holmes et al. 1993 Kanerva 1995). Other causes include biocides necessary in water-based paints, and other additives such as hardeners or accelerators and inhibitors of polymerization (Mathias 1984 Fischer 1990, 1995). There are also several other potential causes, including plasticizers, dryers and chromates (Mathias 1984 Fischer et al. 1990). Formaldehyde and rubber chemicals, as well as turpentine and other natural products, can also be included in the list of potential allergens. 

At the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH) between 1974 and 1997, a total of 85 cases of allergic contact dermatitis were diagnosed in different kinds of painters, lacquerers, parquet installers and paint-factory workers. Synthetic resins caused 68 of the cases, 54 of them in paints, lacquers or raw materials of paints, 5 in floor coverings, 5 in car painters filling cements, 4 in parquet lacquers and one in a glue. The other agents included chromium, formaldehyde, cobalt, colophony, a mixture of isothi-azolinones, and rubber chemicals. No cases of type 1 sensitization to natural rubber latex were found. 

Natural rubber is obtained as a latex by tapping the bark of the tree Hevea brasiliensis. Coagulation and drying gives sheets of natural rubber. Chemically it is 98-100% cis-l,4-polyisoprene. 

The ideal way to mix continuously would be to have continuous weigh feeders which would continuously feed in the correct ratio to give the desired formula of rubber, chemicals and liquid directly into the continuous rubber mixing machine. However, most rubber formulas have on average 15 different chemicals to make the complete formula, so it is very difficult to do this weighing continuously due to the high cost and varied nature of the chemicals involved. 

Crude petroleum is obviously vital to the rubber industry. All of the synthetic raw elastomers and the vast majority of the rubber compounding ingredients are directly dependent on petroleum as a feedstock. It is by far the most critical natural raw material for successful rubber production and fabrication. Without crude oil, at least in the short term, there would be no rubber industry as we know it today. There would be only natural rubber for the rubber base, no rubber accelerators, no effective antioxidants, no furnace carbon black reinforcement, and so on. In the long term, however, it would be possible to manufacture organic monomers and organic rubber chemicals from other carbon sources such as agricultural products and coal tar. However, this would result in major economic dislocations and require the development of a new infrastructure. 

Natural gas is equally important at many polymer and rubber chemical plants as a readily available source of energy needed to manufacture these various raw materials for the rubber industry. The importance of this use should be considered most seriously. Previously, the price of natural gas was sometimes higher in the United States than at other geographical locations. However, because of hydraulic fracturing developments, the price of natural gas in the United States is significantly lower now. 

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Dimeihylamine, C2H7N, (CH3)2NH. Colourless, inflammable liquid with an ammoniacal odour, mp -96" C, b.p. 7°C. Occurs naturally in herring brine. Prepared in the laboratory by treating nitrosodimetbyl-aniline with a hot solution of sodium hydroxide. Dimethylamine is largely used in the manufacture of other chemicals. These include the solvents dimethylacetamide and dimethyl-formamide, the rocket propellant unsym-metrical dimethylhydrazine, surface-active agents, herbicides, fungicides and rubber accelerators. 

Sulfur is a component of black gunpowder, and is used in the vulcanization of natural rubber and a fungicide. It is also used extensively in making phosphatic fertilizers. A tremendous tonnage is used to produce sulfuric acid, the most important manufactured chemical. 

A detailed discussion of the history structure and applications of natural rubber appears in the May 1990 issue of the Journal of Chemical Education... 

In the mbber industry, formic acid is used for coagulating latex in the production of natural mbber and in the production of certain mbber chemicals (qv) (see Rubber, natural). 

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