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Whatever connotations may have attached to the word ‘rubber’ in the past, this word has for many years now been used to denote the class of materials which display the property of long-range reversible elasticity. Such materials are also now commonly referred to as ‘elastomers’; in fact, the words ‘rubber’ and ‘elastomer’ are used almost synonomously.
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Blackley, D.C. (1983). Introduction. In: Synthetic Rubbers: Their Chemistry and Technology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6619-2_1
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