| 释义 |
ˈrubberiness
[f. rubbery a. + -ness.]
Rubber-like quality.
1952E. Hemingway Old Man & Sea 125 The old man swung the club down on him..and hit only the heavy solid rubberiness. 1959Times 27 Apr. (Rubber Industry Suppl.) p. vi/6 Embrittlement caused by high temperature oxidation or by loss of rubberiness in the cold must therefore be avoided. 1972P. W. Allen Natural Rubber & Synthetics i. 1 All [rubbers] are high polymers, but of a special type possessing distinctive chemical structural characteristics which enable them to be transformed by one means or another into materials having the property of ‘rubberiness’. |