Rubber Band - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: rubber bandrubber band
A closed loop of rubber usually having a thin rectangular cross section also called elastic band it varies in length from the circumference of a finger to several inches and is usually used to hold several objects together temporarily by the tension exerted when the band is stretched and fitted around the objects to be held as to hold a pack of cards together with a rubber band...
elastic band
Same as rubber band...
Rubber
Rubber, rubber is described in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Volume 19, 1965 edition: Rubber the substance caoutchouc (q.v.), a milklike fluid that is obtained from certain tropical shrubs or tyres and then subjected to various processes of manufacture; or it may be a product of chemical synthesis. The uniqueness of rubber lies in its physical properties of extensibility and toughness. In its natural state, it is greatly affected by temperature, becoming harder when cooled (at 0 x-10 x C it is opaque) and softer when heated (above 50x C it becomes tackier and less elastic, decomposing into liquid form at 190 x-200x C). When vulcanized (i.e. heated with sulfur at 120 x-160 x C) it loses its thermoplasticity and becomes stronger and more elastic..... Chemically, rubber is a polymer of isoprene..... The term synthetic rubber is used to describe an evergrowing number of elastic materials, some of which closely resemble natural rubber while others have completely different physical properti...
Paraacute rubber
The caoutchouc obtained from the South American euphorbiaceous tree Hevea brasiliensis hence called the Paraacute rubber tree from the Brazilian river and seaport named Paraacute also the similar product of other species of Hevea It is usually exported in flat round cakes and is a chief variety of commercial India rubber...
Rubberize
To coat or impregnate with rubber or a rubber solution or preparation as silk...
big band
A band that is the size of an orchestra usually playing mostly jazz or swing music The big band typically features both ensemble and solo playing sometimes has a lead singer and is often located in a night club where the patrons may dance to its music The big bands were popular from the late 1920s to the 1940s Contrasted with combo which has fewer players...
Banding plane
A plane used for cutting out grooves and inlaying strings and bands in straight and circular work...
Forest
Forest [fr. foresta, Ital.], an incorporeal hereditament, being the right or franchise of keeping, for the purpose of venery and hunting, the wild beasts and fowls of forest, chase, park, and warren (which means all animals pursued in field sports), in a certain teritory or precinct of woody ground and pasture set apart for the purpose, with laws and officers of its own, established for protection of the game, Manw. For. Laws.A tract of land, not necessarily wooded, reserved to king or a grantee, for hunting deer and other game, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 660.The Charta de Foresta, confirmed in Parliament, 9 Hen. 3, disafforested many forests unlawfully made. Some of the royal forests still exist, as the New Forest in Hampshire, and Windsor; they are now administered by the Commissioners of Crown Lands and Forestry Commission; see FORESTRY ACTS. A forest is, in general, a royal possession, though it is capable of being vested in a subject. A forest is a right which the owner ...
Hevea
A small genus of South American trees yielding latex It includes the rubber tree Hevea brasiliensis originally found in South America but now used for production of rubber world wide...
VerbarLatex
A milky or colored juice in certain plants in cavities called latex cells or latex tubes It contains the peculiar principles of the plants whether aromatic bitter or acid and in many instances yields caoutchouc upon coagulation The lattex of the India rubber plant produces the rubber of commerce on coagulation...
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