Natural rubber, also called India rubber or caoutchouc, is an elastomer (an elastic hydrocarbon polymer) that was originally derived from latex, a milky colloid produced by some plants. The plants would be ‘tapped’, that is, an incision made into the bark of the tree and the latex sap collected and refined into a usable rubber. The purified form of natural rubber is the chemical polyisoprene, which can also be produced synthetically. Natural rubber is used extensively in many applications and products, as is synthetic rubber.
some woman doing something sexy
The use of rubber is widespread, ranging from household to industrial products, entering the production stream at the intermediate stage or as final products. Tires and tubes are the largest consumers of rubber. The remaining 44% are taken up by the general rubber goods (GRG) sector, which includes all products except tires and tubes.
Other significant uses of rubber are door and window profiles, hoses, belts, matting, flooring and dampeners (antivibration mounts) for the automotive industry in what is known as the "under the bonnet" products. Gloves (medical, household and industrial) and toy balloons are also large consumers of rubber, although the type of rubber used is that of the concentrated latex. Significant tonnage of rubber is used as adhesives in many manufacturing industries and products, although the two most noticeable are the paper and the carpet industries. Rubber is also commonly used to make rubber bands and pencil erasers. Many aircraft tires and inner tubes are still made of natural rubber due to the high cost of certification for aircraft use of synthetic replacements.
Some people have a serious latex allergy, and exposure to certain natural rubber latex products such as latex gloves can cause anaphylactic shock. Guayule latex is hypoallergenic and is being researched as a substitute to the allergy-inducing Hevea latexes. Unlike the sappable Hevea tree, these relatively small shrubs must be harvested whole and latex extracted from each cell. Chemical processes may also be employed to reduce the amount of antigenic protein in Hevea latex, resulting in alternative Hevea-based materials such Vytex Natural Rubber Latex that, while not completely hypoallergenic, do provide lessened exposure to latex allergens.
Some allergic reactions are not from the latex but from residues of other ingredients used to process the latex into clothing, gloves, foam, etc. These allergies are usually referred to as multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS).
Poor things.
what?
Posts
was it amazing?
I dunno what I want for dinner.
thought i posted that but i guess not
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
putting up pictures now
coulda been [chat]loniidae and been all pictures of turtles all time
also something something Will keepin the lizard people down
One time I tried to post about the Bu[Chat]ti Veyron.
It was really all about the timing.
For shame
For shaaaame
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
mojo: {em}no time{\em}
(i added the greek yogurt while the pan was still too hot, so it separated and curdled a little but still tastes great)
i don't think you get it
I liked it, because it was a subversion of our expectations.
Is that what you kids are calling it nowadays?
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\emph{no time}, you mean?
That you thought people thought it would be about your kinks?
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
thank you!
when we were looking at places, having a nice kitchen was pretty important to me
frankie wanted a nice bathtub
i dont get it
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
having a nice kitchen is important to me as well
sadly, this hasn't been the case, and i feel it will continue to NOT be the case for many years
LaTeX is a text editor. Kinda surprised you haven't used it, it's popular in the sciences.
That looks amazingly scrumptious.
I'd make something like that if I didn't have the flu and felt too shitty to do any cooking whatsoever.
Though if you don't mind me saying your pancake looks a bit too thick to be swedish.
Then again, if you tried stuffing a thinner pancake with all that delicious stuff it'd just crumble.
Latex is a typesetting thingy. You should really know that Arch, you're a scientist, you should already be using it.
i have literally never heard of it up until right now
what
arch I'm an english major and I know what it is
it was actually pretty thin - maybe 2 mm. it was just made in a smallish pan so the edges look concave in that photo
I'm certainly not convinced that Omar Suleiman will be any better, but it's still an interesting development.
it's because you never have to do any math
thats not true
Also some nitrile if you like. They are blue!
Ah, fair enough :P