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    Determination of Dry Rubber Content: 1. Scope

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    This document provides a method for determining the dry rubber content of natural rubber latex from the Hevea brasiliensis tree. The method involves diluting the latex sample to approximately 20% total solids, coagulating it with acetic acid or rectified spirit, washing and drying the coagulum, and calculating the dry rubber content as a percentage of the original sample mass. The dry rubber content is defined as the mass of dried coagulum divided by the original sample mass. Duplicate tests should agree within 0.2%.

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    Determination of Dry Rubber Content: 1. Scope

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    This document provides a method for determining the dry rubber content of natural rubber latex from the Hevea brasiliensis tree. The method involves diluting the latex sample to approximately 20% total solids, coagulating it with acetic acid or rectified spirit, washing and drying the coagulum, and calculating the dry rubber content as a percentage of the original sample mass. The dry rubber content is defined as the mass of dried coagulum divided by the original sample mass. Duplicate tests should agree within 0.2%.

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    This document provides a method for determining the dry rubber content of natural rubber latex from the Hevea brasiliensis tree. The method involves diluting the latex sample to approximately 20% total solids, coagulating it with acetic acid or rectified spirit, washing and drying the coagulum, and calculating the dry rubber content as a percentage of the original sample mass. The dry rubber content is defined as the mass of dried coagulum divided by the original sample mass. Duplicate tests should agree within 0.2%.

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    This document provides a method for determining the dry rubber content of natural rubber latex from the Hevea brasiliensis tree. The method involves diluting the latex sample to approximately 20% total solids, coagulating it with acetic acid or rectified spirit, washing and drying the coagulum, and calculating the dry rubber content as a percentage of the original sample mass. The dry rubber content is defined as the mass of dried coagulum divided by the original sample mass. Duplicate tests should agree within 0.2%.

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    IS: 3708(PART 1)-1985

    DETERMINATION OF DRY RUBBER CONTENT


    1. SCOPE

    1.1 This standard method (part 1) prescribes a method for the determination of dry rubber
    content
    of natural rubber latex of hevea brasiliensis, uncompounded and unvulcanized, and
    subjected to
    some type of concentration process other than heat concentration and which may contain
    preservatives.
    1.2 The method is not necessarily suitable for compounded or vulcanized natural rubber
    latex and
    is not applicable to synthetic rubber lattices.

    2. OUTLINE OF THE METHOD

    2.1 The latex is diluted to approximately 20 percent and then coagulated with a suitable
    coagulating
    agent. The coagulum is dried at constant temperature and weighed.

    3. APPARATUS

    3.1 Chemical Balance


    3.2 Air Oven- capable of being maintained at a temperature of 70 ±2 °C
    3.3 Water Bath
    3.4 Desiccator

    4. REAGENTS

    4.1 Acetic Acid-Two percent solution(m/v)(see IS:695-1975)


    4.2 Rectified Spirit-see IS : 323-1959

    5. PROCEDURE

    5.1 Duplicate determination shall be done on each sample.


    5.2 Weigh by difference from a weighing bottle, about 10 g of the well-mixed sample
    accurately to 1
    mg into a suitable container such as beaker. Add water until the total solids content of the
    latex
    is about 20 percent. Add up to 8 ml of acetic acid per gram of sample, gently stirring over
    a
    period of 5 minutes. Keep the solution undisturbed for about 15 minutes at a temperature
    a
    little below boiling. If the serum remains milky, add 5 ml of rectified spirit and gently
    stir. When
    the serum s clear, collect any small particles of coagulum by rubbing with the main bulk.
    Wash
    the coagulum with running water or with at least six changes of water until neutral to
    litmus.
    Press the coagulum to expel water and to obtain a uniform sheet not exceeding 2 mm in
    thickness, either by hand roller or mechanical rollers. Dry the coagulum at a temperature
    of
    approximately 70 ± 2 °C until it has no white patches. Cool in desiccator and weigh.
    Repeat drying
    operation until the loss in mass s less than 1 mg
    Note-freshly preserved latex may be coagulated with 0.5 percent acetic acid by adding up
    to 15 ml of acid per gram of
    sample.

    6. CALCULATION

    6.1 Calculate the dry rubber content (DRC) of the sample as follows:
    Dry Rubber Content, percent by mass = M1 ×100
    M2
    Where,
    M1= mass in grams of dry coagulum, and
    M2= mass in grams of the sample taken for the test.
    Note—A difference of 0.2 percent between the results of duplicate determinations on
    sample is not considered significant.

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