ABSTRACT
In summing up the cure of rubber heated in a mold, it can be said that this process consists of two main stages: the heating stage up to the temperature at which the cure reaction starts, and the cure reaction itself. If the heating stage is rather simple to describe, the cure of rubber is a complex reaction with initiation steps, followed by propagation steps, and ending in termination steps. Instead of attempting to study the cure by considering its various steps, reducing these steps to a unique “simple” reaction leads to an Arrhenius’s expression with one value for the energy of activation and a given order of reaction for the remaining amount of the reaction components.
