rubber hydrocarbon

noun

: a white highly polymerized hydrocarbon (C₅H₈)_n or (C₁₀H₁₆)_n that is amorphous at ordinary temperatures and that is stereoisomeric with gutta hydrocarbon and constitutes the principal component of natural rubber : a cis form of polyisoprene

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