Size: 15.8″L x 8.8″W (Medium) Thickness: 0.8″ (Medium) The most available Japanese-made rubber boards are made by a company famous for its high-carbon steel knives.Yoshihiro’s Hi-Soft boards are made ...

Sea cucumber makes hard plastic go soft. Friday, 7 March 2008 Julie Steenhuysen ... The material is made from two compounds: a rubber-like polymer and tiny cellulose fibres that add stiffness.

Properly known as baton rounds, rubber bullets are pretty much what they sound like -- bullets either made from, or coated with, rubber or plastic -- to cause pain but minimise serious injury.

Natural rubber (NR), polymers of isoprene, is harvested in the form of latex from rubber trees. It is stretchable and highly resilient to physical stress, and yet susceptible to bacterial degradation.

IN the majority of the micro-hardness tests1, the indenter has to be removed to measure the indentation, and this is also the case in designs where the indenter is mounted in the front lens of the ...