Isoprene is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 342 anagrams from letters in isoprene (eeinoprs).
1855-60; iso- + -pr- (-ene; see terpene
From this gas isoprene can be made and the isoprene converted into rubber by sodium, or acid or alkali or simple heating.
isoprene is a very volatile liquid, boiling at a temperature of about 30 degrees Fahrenheit.
isoprene could be obtained from turpentine, but this was too expensive and limited in supply.
You will see that the isoprene consists of a chain of four carbon atoms (represented by the C's) with an extra carbon on the side.
We can get isoprene by the distillation of turpentine—but why not bleed a rubber tree as well as a pine tree?
The difficulty lay rather in the cost of the raw material, isoprene.
Specimens of isoprene were made from several vegetable oils in the course of Dr. Tilden's work on those compounds.
isoprene, from which Dr. Tilden produced India rubber, is comparatively a new product, as derived from oil of turpentine.
This is the first instance on record of the spontaneous change of isoprene into India rubber.
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