Caoutchouc - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: caoutchoucCaoutchouc
A tenacious elastic gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America esp the euphorbiaceous tree Siphonia elastica or Hevea caoutchouc Asia and Africa Being impermeable to liquids and gases and not readly affected by exposure to air acids and alkalies it is used especially when vulcanized for many purposes in the arts and in manufactures Also called India rubber because it was first brought from India and was formerly used chiefly for erasing pencil marks and gum elastic See Vulcanization...
Caoutchin
An inflammable volatile oily liquid hydrocarbon obtained by the destructive distillation of caoutchouc...
Chicle
A gumlike substance obtained from the bully tree Mimusops globosa and sometimes also from the naseberry or sapodilla Sapota zapotilla It is more plastic than caoutchouc and more elastic than gutta percha as an adulterant of which it is used in England It is used largely in the United States in making chewing gum...
Corticine
A material for carpeting or floor covering made of ground cork and caoutchouc or India rubber...
Dambonite
A white crystalline sugary substance obtained from an African caoutchouc...
Elasticity
The quality of being elastic the inherent property in bodies by which they recover their former figure or dimensions after the removal of external pressure or altering force springiness resilience tendency to rebound as the elasticity of caoutchouc the elasticity of the air...
Elaterite
A mineral resin of a blackish brown color occurring in soft flexible masses called also mineral caoutchouc and elastic bitumen...
Gutta percha
A concrete juice produced by various trees found in the Malayan archipelago especially by the Isonandra Gutta syn Dichopsis Gutta It becomes soft and unpressible at the tamperature of boiling water and on cooling retains its new shape It dissolves in oils and ethers but not in water In many of its properties it resembles caoutchouc and it is extensively used for many economical purposes The Mimusops globosa of Guiana also yields this material...
India rubber
See Caoutchouc...
Isoprene
An oily volatile unsaturated hydrocarbon C5H8 obtained by the distillation of caoutchouc or gutta percha and used to make synthetic rubber by polymerization In organic chemistry it is viewed conceptually as the building block of the terpene series of hydrocarbons...
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