rubberlike
- s having an elastic texture resembling rubber in flexibility or toughness
- High electronic magnifications (105,000 diameters) of vinylchloride polymer, a rubberlike synthetic, show a mottling of dots which scientists assume to be actual molecules; 25,000 .
- Substitutes for rubber, rather than rubberlike elastomers, are Goodrich's Koroseal, Union Carbide Chemical's Vinyon, etc.
- Du Pont's latest dividend from Carothers' research is rubberlike urethane foam, used in a wide variety of end products from furniture to falsies.