Question

Why is rubber so elastic?

Answer 1

Rubber:

1. Rubber is a stretchy and shrinkable polymer. It is found in nature and can also be manufactured.
2. Rubber has been used by humans since the dawn of mankind.
3. However, during the nineteenth century, it became a very useful industrial raw material for a variety of purposes.

The reason rubber is so elastic:

1. Polymers are long chains of chemicals that make up natural rubber.
2. These polymers become tangled up in themselves because they are so lengthy (they might be hundreds of molecules long).
3. As a result, the polymers have a feature known as elasticity. Rubber bands are also known as elastic bands because of this.