12th Class Chemistry Polymers / बहुलक Question Bank 12th CBSE Chemistry Polymers

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      How does vulcanisation improve the quality of rubber?

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      Natural rubber becomes soft at high temperature (> 335 K) and brittle at low temperature (< 283 K). So, in order to make it hard it is vulcanised by adding sulphur. Sulphur forms cross links at the reactive sites of double bonds and thus rubber gets stiffened.


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