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Is rubber dead (used to be living), alive (doubt it) or was never alive? I NEED TO KNOW!

2007-10-31 21:59:49 · 4 answers · asked by Annie P 1 in Environment Green Living

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no it consist of atoms

2007-11-01 00:26:14 · answer #1 · answered by heebz82 2 · 0 3

Rubber doesn't have cells, it's not dead, alive or was ever alive. 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. Aside from a few natural product impurities, natural rubber is essentially a polymer of isoprene units, a hydrocarbon diene monomer. Synthetic rubber can be made as a polymer of isoprene or various other monomers.

The main source of natural rubber comes from the para rubber tree Hevea brasiliensis (Euphorbiaceae), a rain forest tree native to the Amazon Basin. Ninety percent of all natural rubber comes from the latex sap of this species.

Vulcanization is the addition of sulfur to rubber to form cross-linking of the isoprene subunits with disulfide bonds, thus improving the elasticity of the latex and making it impervious to weather. This is done for various uses of rubber.

Rubber does not have cells, was never alive, and is not dead.

2007-11-01 10:45:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3 0

No. Rubber is derived from the sap of a plant. This is a fluid, not cell material.

2007-11-01 02:02:54 · answer #3 · answered by Dr Jello 7 · 4 1

Natural rubber comes from a rubber tree and yes there are cells. Synthetic rubber on the other hand does not have cells.

2007-10-31 22:38:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1 4

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