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There's a lot more to tires than rubber: https://www.ustires.org/whats-tire-0 https://www.ustires.org/whats-tire-0 Synthetic fibers include Rayon, Nylon, Poly
by pharke 5y ago
There's a lot more to tires than rubber:
https://www.ustires.org/whats-tire-0 https://www.ustires.org/whats-tire-0
Synthetic fibers include Rayon, Nylon, Polyester, Acrylic, and Spandex among the more widely used ones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_fiber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_fiber
- wearywanderer 5y agoThese are the fibers in the reinforcing bands and rims, right? Those are buried under the rubber and if your tire is shedding material from those bands then your tire must be truly worn to nothing. I think the vast majority of material shed from tires must be the rubber itself. Illustration of a tire cross section: https://www.michelintruck.com/img/tires/xze-zoomer.jpg https://www.michelintruck.com/img/tires/xze-zoomer.jpg
- tkzed49 5y agoI think the point of the second part was that a lot of textiles are made of plastic fibers