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As anyone who has stretched an elastic or rubber band knows the behavior of rubber is quite different to that of most other materials. If you pull on a crystalline material such as steel it can be stretched only about 0.1–0.2% before it remains permanently stretched: pull it less than 0.2% and the material will spring back to its original length (although this is such a small a change that you would be hard pressed to notice it). Rubber, sometimes called India Rubber, behaves very differently. It can be stretched over 500% and still behave elastically, that is it will spring back to its original length.
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Baker, I. (2018). Rubber. In: Fifty Materials That Make the World. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78766-4_38
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