Definitions for "Environmental resistance"
Factors such as food supply, weather, disease, and predators that keep a population below its biotic potential.
The totality of factors such as adverse weather conditions, shortage of food or water, predators, and diseases that tend to cut back populations and keep them from growing or spreading. (Contrast biotic potential.)
The sum of the factors limiting the numbers of an organism in a specific environment ( BCFT).
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A mechanical material property related to how a material responds to environmental conditions, such as heat and moisture.
The electrical and mechanical resistance of a switch to specified environmental extremes such as dust, moisture, salt spray, and corrosive vapors.
The need to for improved environmental resistance was the driving force behind the development of the first synthetic elastomers. Fr. Julius Nieuwland of the University of Notre Dame performed some very early work on basic reactions involving vinyl-acetylene. Fr. Nieuwland's research was later used by Du Pont chemists to create the first synthetic rubber, neoprene (1904). Neoprene had better resistance to oils, fuels and weather than natural rubber. With proper selection, elastomeric compounds can be made to be resistant to just about any environment from hot fuels and oils to concentrated acids and bases. They can be made resistant to temperatures as high as +275°C or as low as –100°C. Even though exposed to these environments for long periods of time, we can still expect them to exhibit the elastomeric properties that make them the unique materials that they are.