What Is Synthetic Rubber?
Synthetic rubber is a polymer material, meaning it’s made of large molecules formed of simpler, identical molecules (monomers). Polymers can be natural (such as silk or natural rubber) or synthetic (such as plastics or synthetic rubbers). Industrial processes commonly used to create synthetic rubber include solution and emulsion polymerization which add rubber monomers to a solvent-based or water-based mixture to convert the monomers into polymers.