The Oil Resistance of Rubber. II. Molecular Polarization and Dipole Moment of Purified Natural Rubber
Abstract Natural rubber was purified by Pummerer's method and was dissolved in benzene and ether. The dielectric constant, refractive index, density, and concentration of the solutions were determined. From these data, the molecular polarization and dipole moment were calculated on the assumption that the rubber was dissolved in a molecular state of (C5H8)8. The dipole moments of total and gel rubber were found to be 2.45 and 2.91 × 10−18, respectively. These values are of the same order of magnitude as those of masticated crude rubber obtained by Ostwald. It may be said that the impurities of rubber are interlocked mechanically on the rubber molecule and are not combined chemically. Sol rubber in ether solution shows a far lower value than the values of total and gel rubber. These latter values may be influenced by autoöxidation, and the true value of the rubber hydrocarbon may be far smaller than the result described in this paper.