It is known that some reagents such as ammonium acetate and magnesium carbonate improve transparency of natural rubber and Butyl rubber, but few reports which regarded to organic transparent agents have been published.
Thus, we attempted to develop some organic agents, and found that amine derivatives or thiourea derivatives improve transparency of natural rubber and synthetic rubbers such as SBR, NBR, polychloroprene, polybutadiene, Butyl rubber, and synthetic natural rubber.
Approximatelies, activity of these agents are inversely proportional to their molecular weights. Additional experiments showed that white carbon such as Nipsil VN3 or Aerosil is necessary for this object.
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