If the latex is warmed or an acid, an alkali or astringent plant juice is added to it, coagulation usually takes place more or less readily, the caoutchouc separating in solid flakes or curds.
It is almost insoluble in water, is miscible with absolute alcohol and ether, and dissolves sulphur, phosphorus, resins and caoutchouc. On exposure to the air it dries to a solid resin, and absorbing oxygen gives off ozone - a reaction utilized in the disinfectant called Sanitas.
True caoutchouc, the principal constituent of all rubbers, is probably essentially one and the same substance, from whatever botanical source it may have been derived.
caoutchouc הגייה עם משמעויות, מילים נרדפות, הפכים, תרגומים, משפטים ועוד