Natural rubber Natural rubber Natural rubber, also called India rubber or caoutchouc, as initially produced, consists of polymers of the organic compound isoprene, with minor impurities of other organic compounds, plus water. Malaysia and Indonesia are two of the leading rubber producers. Forms of polyisoprene that are used as natural rubbers are classified as elastomers. Currently, rubber is harvested mainly in the form of the latex from the rubber tree or others. The latex is a sticky, milky colloid drawn off by making incisions in the bark and collecting the fluid in vessels in a process called "tapping". The latex then is
Amount of substance the molar mass. Molar quantities are sometimes denoted by a subscript Latin "m" in the symbol, e.g. "C", molar heat capacity at constant pressure: the subscript may be omitted if there is no risk of ambiguity, as is often the case in pure chemistry. The main derived quantity in which amount of substance enters into the numerator is amount of substance concentration, "c". This name is often abbreviated to "amount concentration", except in clinical chemistry where "substance concentration" is the preferred term to avoid ambiguity with mass concentration. The term "molar concentration" is incorrect, but commonly used. The alchemists, and