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Butyl Rubber
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Butyl Rubber

Polyisobutylene was a soft, sticky material that could not be vulcanised - it had no double bonds left for sulphur to bridge. At Standard Oil in 1937 William Sparks and Robert Thomas added a few percent of isoprene to the isobutylene, just enough double bonds to cure it, and polymerised the mix far below freezing. The result held air better than any rubber before it, and inner tubes have been made of it ever since. **US 2,356,128**, "Mixed olefinic polymerization process and product", Thomas and Sparks, assigned to Jasco, filed 20. October 1939, granted 22. August 1944: an isoolefin with a small amount of diolefin, polymerised below 0 °C (down to about -160 °C) with aluminium chloride; it describes "a low, controlled, chemical unsaturation, capable of being cured with sulfur". **You measure the two properties that made its name**: it barely bounces, and it barely leaks.
Mwanzo
1 hour plus a week of readings

Maagizo

1

Make a butyl pad

Cut 80 mm pieces from a bicycle inner tube and flatten them. Stack three (six walls) and tape the edges so it is about as thick as the natural rubber sheet.

Vifaa kwa hatua hii:

Tyubu ya ndaniTyubu ya ndani1 kipande
Utepe wa kufunikaUtepe wa kufunika1 rolii

Zana zinazohitajika:

MkasiMkasi
2

Drop and watch

Tape a metal ruler upright beside each pad on a solid floor. Drop the steel ball from 500 mm, five times per pad, and read the top of the first bounce. Filming at eye level makes it easier.

Vifaa kwa hatua hii:

Bati la mpira asiliaBati la mpira asilia1 kipande

Zana zinazohitajika:

Bearing ya tufe za chumaBearing ya tufe za chuma
Rula ya chumaRula ya chuma
3

Inflate the leak test

Pump the rest of the tube just until it is round - do not stretch it. Blow up a latex balloon to about the same firmness and tie it. Mark where you will measure each with tape.

Vifaa kwa hatua hii:

PutoPuto1 paketi

Zana zinazohitajika:

Pampu ya sakafu ya baiskeliPampu ya sakafu ya baiskeli
4

Measure for a week

Each day at the same time measure the balloon round its middle and the tube round its cross-section at the mark. Note the room temperature.

Zana zinazohitajika:

Tepi ya kupimiaTepi ya kupimia
Kipimajoto cha ChumbaniKipimajoto cha Chumbani
5

Bounce and leak

Inapakia daftari la Jupyter…
6

History & Context

**What the patent specifies:** isobutylene with a little conjugated diolefin, polymerised below 0 °C with aluminium chloride in an alkyl halide, then sulphur-cured. **Modern build (derived):** a commercial butyl inner tube. Butyl became a strategic wartime rubber, then the air-holding liner inside every tubeless tyre, plus pond liners, roof membranes and engine mounts. Its limits: it is slow to vulcanise, does not bond well to other rubbers, and swells in oil and petrol.

Vifaa

4

Zana Zinazohitajika

6

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