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Polyisoprene is diene polymer, which is a polymer
made from a monomer containing two carbon-carbon double bonds. Like
most diene polymers, it has a carbon-carbon double bond in its backbone
chain. Polyisoprene can be harvested from the sap of the hevea tree, but
it can also be made by Ziegler-Natta
polymerization. This is a rare example of a natural polymer that we
can make almost as well as nature does.
This is what the isoprene monomer looks like:
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Other polymers used as elastomers include:
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