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MASTIC REBONDISSANT [1 record]

Record 1 1998-08-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rubber
DEF

A silicone rubber containing some Si-O-B groups.

CONT

A specialty product known as "bouncing putty" or "silly putty" has unusual rheological properties which allow it to be stretched, shattered, molded, or to rebound like rubber when dropped on hard surface.

CONT

Silly Putty's paradoxical behavior under stress, which it shares with many other polymers, is known as viscoelasticity, and it challenged materials scientists for decades.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Caoutchouc
DEF

Mastic doué de propriétés plastiques et élastiques spéciales.

Spanish

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