I love learning these details—thanks for sharing your knowledge and enthusiasm! Now I’m curious about the molecular differences in the rubber. And I also realized I don’t actually know what rubber is exactly! Yikes!
Thanks! Even our vehicles can have rubber differences depending on how we want to drive it and what type of car it is. The two main synthetic rubbers used in normal car tires are butadiene rubber and styrene butadiene rubber. This in conjunction with natural rubber create our tire rubber! Here’s an article that has more information: https://www.ustires.org/whats-tire-0#
I love learning these details—thanks for sharing your knowledge and enthusiasm! Now I’m curious about the molecular differences in the rubber. And I also realized I don’t actually know what rubber is exactly! Yikes!
Thanks! Even our vehicles can have rubber differences depending on how we want to drive it and what type of car it is. The two main synthetic rubbers used in normal car tires are butadiene rubber and styrene butadiene rubber. This in conjunction with natural rubber create our tire rubber! Here’s an article that has more information: https://www.ustires.org/whats-tire-0#