EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Medical silicone rubber can be found in tubing, adhesives, and defoamers. Consumer products that use this material include anti-stick bakeware, food containers, utensils, toys, and jewelry including silicone rubber band bracelets.

Detailed explanation-2: -Silicone rubber is used in automotive applications, many cooking, baking, and food storage products, apparel including undergarments, sportswear, and footwear, electronics, to home repair and hardware, and a host of unseen applications.

Detailed explanation-3: -It is used across a broad range of applications, spanning everything from car tyres, shoe soles and heels, drive couplings, automotive parts and mechanical rubber goods. A large proportion of SBR is also used in latex form as an adhesive.

Detailed explanation-4: -Some of the material’s key characteristics are high tear and tensile strength, resilience, and resistance to abrasion, friction, extreme temperatures, and water swell.

Detailed explanation-5: -A large amount of SBR is produced in latex form as a rubbery adhesive for use in applications such as carpet backing. Other applications are in belting, flooring, wire and cable insulation, and footwear.