Rubber stoppers are rubber like caps made to be fit in the mouth or opening of a lid or container to close it. There are many scientific, chemical, commercial and industrial uses of rubber stoppers. The uses and applications of rubber stoppers are described in detail below::

1) Scientific use of rubber stoppers

Rubber stopper are used for scientific purposes in laboratory. Mostly in chemical and science laboratories, there are various chemicals that need to be covered. Some of the chemicals are found to escape when kept opened. Various processes are being tested at laboratories world-wide and chemicals are needed to be kept carefully. They must be handled with care to avoid dangerous life taking incidents.

Moreover scientist keep moving to different geographical regions in case of their research and they need to take various chemicals along with them, which can be wasted off if covered with simple tin or metal caps. This is why it becomes necessary to use rubber stoppers to cover the chemicals and keep them from falling off.

2) Chemical applications of rubber stoppers

Most of the hazardous and dangerous chemicals known so far are covered with rubber stoppers. One of the most dangerous substances to be treated in laboratories are acids which are covered with rubber stoppers. Acids need some specific ratio of substances of which plastics are made that keep them from affecting the rubber cork. While the other substance if used to cover chemicals may react with them to degenerate them hence they cannot be used to pack acidic chemicals.

3) Commercial uses of rubber stoppers

Commercially there are many uses of rubber stoppers as there are many equipment and furnaces that are working together to make various products. These furnaces use various kinds of rubber stoppers having different number of holes in them. Some rubber stoppers have on, two or more holes in it depending upon its usage. Holes in rubber stoppers are made for exchanging air from inside and outside the environment..

4) Industrial uses of rubber stoppers

Rubber stoppers are industrially used in industrialization of many products. In manufacturing of many products rubber stoppers are used to cover the openings of the containers. The containers contained many chemicals and industrial substances that need to be kept at a specific temperature range and require a certain amount of moisture. This is the reason why certain amount of holes are made into the rubber stoppers, they allow a required amount of moisture to be present inside the lid cover to keep the substance in usable state till the end. It is known so far then when such rubber stoppers are not used mostly the chemical substances go waste due to temperature changes.

These are the most vast applications of rubber stoppers in the industry and each application has its own importance in the easy and normal working of the industry and scientific researches being made till the date. .