To examine the effect of antioxidant on rubbers, we investigated the effect by means of the method of continuous stress relaxation, adding the amine type antioxidants to BR and IR, with the following result :
(1) As far as BR, which is very crosslinkable, is concerned, it was not possible to determine the relative effects of antioxidants.
(2) Concerning IR, the relaxation of rubber added with antioxidants; PBNA, DNPPD, PANA (impossible of measurement) was something abnormal. In the evaluation of that factor by other methods, we came to think that the volatility of antioxidant itself and its reactivity were involved in it, and that DNPPD was inferior in solubility to the rubber and it generated the physical relaxtion.
(3) In comparison with the result of Geeyer type heat aging test, that of this method does not always agree with the former. This difference is probably caused by the difference in the estimation of the effects of antioxidation.
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