Vulcanized vs. Latex: What's the Difference?

To improve the strength, resiliency, and freedom from stickiness and odor of (rubber, for example) by combining with sulfur or other additives in the presence of heat and pressure.

The colorless or milky sap of certain plants, such as the poinsettia or milkweed, that coagulates on exposure to air.

Simple past tense and past participle of vulcanize

A polymer emulsion consisting of such sap obtained from rubber trees, used to manufacture various thin elastic products such as balloons, disposable gloves, and medical and contraceptive devices. Some people are allergic to this substance. Also called natural rubber latex.

(used of rubber, e.g.) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity)

A similar material made from polymers derived from petroleum; synthetic latex.

Latex paint.

A clear liquid believed to be a component of a humour or other bodily fluid esp. plasma and lymph

The milky sap of several trees that coagulates on exposure to air; used to make rubber.

An emulsion of rubber in water, used in adhesives and the like.

(uncountable) Natural latex rubber, especially non-vulcanized rubber, such as is used in making latex gloves, latex condoms, and latex clothing.

A milky or colored juice in certain plants in cavities (called latex cells or latex tubes). It contains the peculiar principles of the plants, whether aromatic, bitter, or acid, and in many instances yields caoutchouc upon coagulation. The lattex of the India rubber plant produces the rubber of commerce on coagulation.

Any aqueous emulsion of finely divided rubber or plastic particles, especially such an emulsion used as a base for paint; as, a latex paint.

A milky exudate from certain plants that coagulates on exposure to air

A water-base paint having a latex binder