Rubber was first used to manufacture tires in the mid-nineteenth century. By the turn of the twenty-first century, there were about three billion waste tires stockpiled or clogging leak pollutants intolandfills in the United States alone. Worldwide,...

Rubber (Hevea brasiliensis species) as a commercial crop had contributed immensely to the Malaysian economy since the late 1890s and remained the predominant export crop until the early 1980s. Peninsular Malaysia is particularly ideal for rubber owing...

A naturally occurring ELASTOMER obtained commercially primarily from natural rubber latex produced by the rubber tree Hevea brasiliensis. It is used unblended in the production of tyres for larger vehicles such as aircraft and heavy agricultural...

Also known as India rubber, the term originally applied to an organic LATEX obtained from TAPPING the sap of certain plants, especially Hevea brasiliensis. Nowadays much rubber is produced...

Natural rubber is an elastic hydrocarbon polymer that naturally occurs as a milky colloidal suspension, or latex, in the sap of some plants. It can also be synthesized. The entropy model of rubber was developed in 1934 by Werner Kuhn. The scientific...

The United Nations said Thursday that it has suspended the use of rubber bullets while it reviews whether peacekeepers have potentially deadly expired ammunition that has hardened with age.The U.N. police commissioner in Kosovo banned rubber bullets there after an internal inquiry found that Romanian...

With all due respect to The Spinners and T.I., prepare yourself for the new rubber-band man. Steve Milton, through concentration and perseverance, has created a 3,300-pound ball comprised of rubber bands. His creation measures almost 5 feet tall and takes...

Building a huge ball out of more than 175,000 rubber bands is dangerous business. Really. "The rubber bands ... sometimes they'll break. That hurts," said Steve Milton, whose...

The Coast of Akron, by Adrienne Miller. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 390 pages, $25.The trouble is that Ms. Miller can write: She has a voice, as well as a fine comic sense of madness and an air of danger that suggests this novel is always...