elastic compound

Happy that the soles of my shoes were made of seringera, an elastic compound that is supposed to be as strong as steel.

Terrell found that the worn out ship had been heavily calked with Insulphate, a slightly elastic compound of asphalt filled with small bits of cork.

Nieuwland's research was focused on acetylene chemistry and during the course of his work he produced divinyl acetylene, a jelly that firms into an elastic compound similar to rubber when passed over sulfur dichloride.