The polymer families used to make rubber and plastic are the same. A polymer is composed of an enormous number of molecules bonded together to create lengthy chains. The kind of molecules that make up polymers and their molecular assembly determine how they behave. In the rubber business, a rubber made up of two or more monomers is referred to as a polymer. Put another way, the monomers styrene and butadiene make up the polymer known as SBR. Styrene Butadiene Rubber (SBR) is created through its polymerization, or chemical reaction, and differs greatly from the two base monomers it was created from. Here, “polymer” refers to any synthetic rubber or plastic material as a general chemical term.

Elastomers, which include a wide range of polymers, are collectively referred to as rubber. In other words, they regain their shape after being strained or distorted. Polyisoprene, or natural rubber from the sap of Central American hevea trees, is one well-known natural rubber polymer. When individuals in Britain discovered that rubber could be used to “rub out” pencil mistakes, the material became known by that moniker. “Rubers” were the little blobs used to remove mistakes from documents.