The vocabulary is limited to those terms in general
use throughout the rubber industry.
It does not define terms intended for particular
rubber products, some of which are given in the
vocabulary standards listed in the Bibliography.
It does not define terms that are generally
understood or adequately defined in other readily
available sources such as general dictionaries.
The terms are listed in the alphabetical order of the
English terms, with a French index to the corresponding
English terms attached. Some terms have
parenthetical information added to indicate a
specific limitation of the term to a particular field, for
example “?rubber latex?”. When a term has one or
more synonyms, the synonymous terms follow the
preferred term.
Deprecated terms are indicated by “(deprecated)”.
The abbreviation “cf.” indicates that the user may
refer to another term (not a synonym) which
contains information on a closely related area.
Symbols are included under their full descriptions,
but for convenience they are also listed separately
at the end of the main text.
For convenience, standards and other relevant
sources referred to in this vocabulary are listed in
the first section of the Bibliography and vocabularies
relating to finished rubber products are listed
in the second section.