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Rubber that learned to swim, insulate, and never age a day.
means A synthetic rubber, resistant to water, oil, and weathering, used in everything from wetsuits to laptop sleeves to orthopedic braces.
from Coined from 'neo-' (new) plus '-prene,' echoing 'isoprene,' the building block of natural rubber. It was developed in the early 1930s by chemists at DuPont working on synthetic alternatives to rubber, originally marketed under the name 'DuPrene' before the generic term 'neoprene' took over — a lab-born word for a lab-born material.
- invented by
- DuPont chemists, 1930, by accident
- superpower
- traps warm water against your skin on purpose
- beyond wetsuits
- used in laptop sleeves, orthotics, car hoses
- durability
- resists oil, ozone, and decades of flexing