Another means of preventing or drastically reducing the extraction of plasticizers is to compound the rubber with polymeric (high molecular weight) plasticizers. This is commonly done for rubber parts that are in contact with fuel or solvent based materials.
There may be other rubber compounds...
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How would the electrical conductivity compare on two compounds only having the difference that one is based on "clean" NBR and the other on traditional NBR that would contain residual salts and fatty acids?
