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Is rubber more permeable to carbon dioxide than to nitrogen or oxygen? Why?

April 26, 2017Biology carbon dioxide Mathematics nitrogen oxygen permeable rubber

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Is rubber more permeable to carbon dioxide than to nitrogen or oxygen? Why?

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Depends on the kind of rubber. Silicone rubbers are much more permeable to CO2. Many other rubbers (including natural rubber) are less permaeable to CO2. It’s generally proportional to the relative solubility of the gasses in rubber.