19 Facts About Rubber tires

Materials of modern pneumatic tires are synthetic rubber, natural rubber, fabric and wire, along with carbon black and other chemical compounds.

Pneumatic Rubber tires are used on many types of vehicles, including cars, bicycles, motorcycles, buses, trucks, heavy equipment, and aircraft.

Metal tires are still used on locomotives and railcars, and solid rubber tires are still used in various non-automotive applications, such as some casters, carts, lawnmowers, and wheelbarrows.

Rubber tires's doctor, John, later Sir John Fagan, had prescribed cycling as an exercise for the boy, and was a regular visitor.

Tubeless Rubber tires are pneumatic Rubber tires that do not require a separate inner tube.

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Many tires used in industrial and commercial applications are non-pneumatic, and are manufactured from solid rubber and plastic compounds via molding operations.

Solid Rubber tires include those used for lawn mowers, skateboards, golf carts, scooters, and many types of light industrial vehicles, carts, and trailers.

Some aircraft Rubber tires are inflated with nitrogen to "eliminate the possibility of a chemical reaction between atmospheric oxygen and volatile gases from the tire inner liner producing a tire explosion".

Pneumatic Rubber tires are manufactured in about 450 tire factories around the world.

In 2004, $80 billion of Rubber tires were sold worldwide, in 2010 it was $140 billion, and is expected to grow to $258 billion per year by 2019.

Snow Rubber tires have still larger and deeper slots that compact snow and create shear strength within the compacted snow to improve braking and cornering performance.

Materials of modern pneumatic Rubber tires can be divided into two groups, the cords that make up the ply and the elastomer which encases them.

Automotive Rubber tires have a variety of identifying markings molded onto the sidewall as a tire code.

NHTSA established the Uniform Tire Quality Grading System, is a system for comparing the performance of Rubber tires according to the Code of Federal Regulations 49 CFR 575.

All Rubber tires sold for road use in Europe after July 1997 must carry an E-mark.

Scrap Rubber tires are often re-used for things from bumper car barriers to weights to hold down tarps.

Rubber tires are likely to contain some traces of heavy metals or other serious pollutants, but these are tightly bonded within the actual rubber compound so they are unlikely to be hazardous unless the tire structure is seriously damaged by fire or strong chemicals.

Some facilities are permitted to recycle scrap Rubber tires through chipping, and processing into new products, or selling the material to licensed power plants for fuel.

Tire pyrolysis method for recycling used Rubber tires is a technique which heats whole or shredded Rubber tires in a reactor vessel containing an oxygen-free atmosphere and a heat source.