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</script>doi: 10.5254/1.3539528
Abstract The cold mastication of natural rubber in oxygen is shown to proceed rather more rapidly than that in air. Reasons for this difference are considered. Mastication under these conditions is considered as a low temperature oxidative process and consistent with this the subsequent reactions of RO2 radicals produced by mechanical shear are shown to lead to some additional chain scission. The thermal oxidation of rubber masticated in oxygen is rather more rapid than that of rubber masticated in nitrogen in the presence of a radical acceptor.
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