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smoked rubber

noun

  1. a type of crude natural rubber in the form of brown sheets obtained by coagulating latex with an acid, rolling it into sheets, and drying over open wood fires. It is the main raw material for natural rubber products Also calledribbed and smoked sheet Compare crepe rubber
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Sri Lanka exports include mainly precious stones, apparel, tea and spices while exports from Thailand include smoked rubber sheets, natural rubber, plastic and cement.

This is the imagery of Wong’s neighborhood: Storefronts featuring Chinese characters and Spanish; the variegated concrete of prison cells that form the backdrop for a Renaissance-style annunciation; an elegy for a handball court; a paean to the “hickory smoked rubber and B.O.” scent, as the artist once described it, of firemen coming back from work; and above all, expanses of brick, each slab and joint individuated.

Protesters have been demanding that the government guarantees prices of $3.7 per kilo of “smoked rubber sheet” — around double the current local market price.

From Time

The floods are having only a limited impact on rubber production in the region, but shipment of between 1,000 and 1,500 tonnes of smoked rubber sheet could be delayed as a result of transportation problems, industry officials said.

From Reuters

By means of a valve it is possible to allow smoke from the furnace to pass into the room with the hot air for the preparation of smoked rubber.

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