What's the difference between rubber and silicone?
In choosing rubber, it requires specific performance requirements such as hardness, tensile strength, compression, deformation, wear, tear, use of the environment, etc..
Different types and grades of rubber applications are not the same, such as natural rubber is mainly used to make tires, butyl rubber mainly in the tube, three yuan ethylene propylene rubber for sealing products.
Rubber is widely used, mainly the use of elastic rubber, such as rubber tires, rubber rollers, bridge damping, mainly by the industry; silica gel are mostly used in food life appliances, such as pacifiers, spoon for children, a voltage pot seal.
The definitions are different. Rubber is a term that contains many types, such as natural rubber, butadiene rubber, styrene butadiene rubber, acrylic rubber has, including silicone rubber; silicone rubber is one of the specific varieties.
