Rubber

Rubber
Properties
Type	Polymer
Made With/By	Chemical production
Difficulty of Production	Medium-Hard
Exists in Reality	Yes

Rubber is a type of synthetic polymer. It has elastic properties, unlike plastic, another type of polymer. Rubber has many useful applications, for example, in the production of various forms of improved armor and hazmat suits, and as a gating material for most post cracked oil machines.

Production

As mentioned before, this is a material that can only be produced after a catalytic cracking tower has been built.

This is because the main ingredient –  unsaturated hydrocarbons – is only (initially) produced in such a tower.

Unsaturated hydrocarbons can be produced by either cracking  crude oil and refining it, or as the direct product of cracking  natural gas.

Rubber is then made in a chemical plant with the following recipe:

 Chemical Plant

Details	Recipe
Rubber Duration: 5.0s Consumption: TBD Total: TBD Input: 1x Sulfur 500mB Unsaturated Hydrocarbons Output: 1x Rubber Bar	500mB

Alternate, later methods also exist for producing rubber in an ore acidizer:

 Ore Acidizer

25mB

250mB

Uses

• Rubber has many uses, including as a replacement for  latex in all recipes that require that. Initially, that may not be desirable, but as rubber is considerably easier to automate, it will likely quickly supplant any uses of latex, like in the production of conveyors and pneumatic pipes, used commonly in said automation.

Crafting Table

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• It also has uses in crafting certain machines, and in these cases can't be replaced with latex. A notable example is the ZIRNOX, which is most players' first nuclear reactor.

 Assembly Machine

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Trivia

• Rubber is not the same as latex, as latex is natural, although there are many kinds of natural rubbers in real life.