TMO AGE vulcanizate

Air aging for 48 hours at 100 C. does not greatly affect the room temperature properties of the TMO-AGE vulcanizate (Table VII). These conditions would seriously degrade the properties of natural rubber and thus clearly show that TTW elastomers, like PO elastomers, are superior in heat aging to natural rubber. Unfortunately we did not make an extended air aging study on the TMO vulcanizate to determine its long term oxidation resistance. One... 

The gum vulcanization properties of the TWO-AGE copolymer (Table VI) are low. These data are further evidence that the excellent tensile properties observed for the black-filled TMO-AGE vulcanizates is not due to crystallinity or crystallizability. The 91% gel result does support our conclusion that the TWO-AGE copolymer is reasonably uniform. 

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