high rubbery nature

English translation: highly-rubbery nature

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English term or phrase:high rubbery nature
Selected answer:highly-rubbery nature
Entered by: Yvonne Becker

00:45 Jan 10, 2010
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Materials (Plastics, Ceramics, etc.)
English term or phrase: high rubbery nature
I´m proofreading the introduction of a paper on biopolymers to be published in an international scientific journal.

"Synthetic hydrogels have the potential to overcome some of the limitations of natural hydrogels. A synthetic hydrogel with potential as bone TE carrier is poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA). It has been used for several medical applications, because of its excellent biocompatibility, **high rubbery nature** and chemical stability. It has not commonly been researched for bone applications, but has been extensively studied for other types of TE applications [ref]. PVA hydrogels can provide a biologically neutral, yet structurally dynamic and controllable support matrix. "

A bit of technical background:

Polymers are viscoelastic materials, which means that they can behave either as rubber or as a glass or show a combined behavior depending on the temperature and the time the materials have to react to a given stress. In this case, the author wants to express that PVA behaves more like a rubber than as a glass (at the human body temperature, as these materials are aimed to be used as biomaterials).

The expression as such, doesn't seem to be common. My guess is that I will have to change the adverb, but any suggestions that sound natural in English and stay true to the meaning are welcome.

Thank you very much in advance for your suggestions.
Yvonne Becker
Local time: 02:32
highly-rubbery nature; properties closely resembling those of rubber
Explanation:
The 2nd is a bit long, but expresses what is being said

I'd stick to 'rubber' properties rather than trying to pick out any specific ones (flexibility, resilience (bounciness?)), as we don't know in which specific way this material behaves like rubber

And I'd use 'properties' rather than 'characteristics' in this sort of context
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Carol Gullidge
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:32
Grading comment
Thanks a lot!
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SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
3 +1flexible resilience
Stephanie Ezrol
3 +1highly-rubbery nature; properties closely resembling those of rubber
Carol Gullidge
3 +1rubberiness/elasticity
Shera Lyn Parpia
3"elasticity" + 'bounciness' = elastic deformation
hhyin09
3springiness
Rachel Fell
2highly rubber-like characteristics
Yasutomo Kanazawa


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highly rubber-like characteristics


Explanation:
I think this would be more natural and smooth.

Yasutomo Kanazawa
Japan
Local time: 15:32
Native speaker of: Native in JapaneseJapanese
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
flexible resilience


Explanation:
I think this might fit your need to express a rubber quality, both in the rebound quality of rubber (resilience) and the flexible (certainly not glass like) quality of rubber. There a number of other examples using this expression in a medical materials context found when googling "flexible resilience" +medical

Example sentence(s):
  • Such devices are fabricated of material having a degree of flexible resilience, for example medical grade silicone rubber.
  • The distal end 26 of catheter tube 16 can comprise any type of material that provides flexible resilience, such as natural or synthetic rubber, flexible plastic, and so forth

    Reference: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7506647.html
    Reference: http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/ja/ia.jsp?ia=US2006%2F029303&IA=US...
Stephanie Ezrol
United States
Local time: 02:32
Native speaker of: English

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agree  juvera
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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
highly-rubbery nature; properties closely resembling those of rubber


Explanation:
The 2nd is a bit long, but expresses what is being said

I'd stick to 'rubber' properties rather than trying to pick out any specific ones (flexibility, resilience (bounciness?)), as we don't know in which specific way this material behaves like rubber

And I'd use 'properties' rather than 'characteristics' in this sort of context

Carol Gullidge
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:32
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thanks a lot!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Michal Berski: highly rubber-like?
1 hr
  -> many thanks Michal!
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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
rubberiness/elasticity


Explanation:
I reckon this is sufficient and conveys the concept fully. Translations often use more words than necessary. If you prefer, you could say "high degree of rubberiness".
see
http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&client=firefox-a&rls=org.m...

"high elasticity" is another option (a search gives several cases of the terms used interchangeably)

Shera Lyn Parpia
Italy
Local time: 07:32
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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agree  Gillian Scheibelein: high degree of elasticity
53 mins
  -> thanks!
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"elasticity" + 'bounciness' = elastic deformation


Explanation:
i think "good elastic deformability" is what you want :D

hhyin09
United States
Local time: 23:32
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22 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
springiness


Explanation:
not sure whether this is scientific enough and haven't currently got time to research, but if rubbery is to be used, it should be preceded by "highly"

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Note added at 22 hrs (2010-01-10 23:01:55 GMT)
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but other answers may be OK too - need to know which aspect of rubberiness is meant, I think

Rachel Fell
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:32
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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