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Synthesis of Petroleum, Rubber and Related Materials

The decades-long quest to create the world's most important industrial materials without drilling holes in the ground or tapping trees. Petroleum synthesis (from coal, natural gas, or biomass) is real and practiced at scale—Fischer-Tropsch plants turn gas into liquid fuels, especially where oil is expensive and gas is cheap. Rubber synthesis is even more successful: most rubber today is synthetic, made from petroleum. The frontier is making these processes cheaper, cleaner, and more efficient, and eventually making them from renewable sources. The dream is a world where transportation fuels come from air and water, where tires are made from plants, and where the petroleum age ends not because we ran out of oil but because we found something better.
Synthesis of Petroleum, Rubber and Related Materials Example: "The plant synthesized diesel from natural gas, producing fuel that burned cleaner than oil-derived diesel. It worked perfectly, at scale, for decades. Environmentalists hated it because natural gas. Oil companies hated it because competition. The plant didn't care; it just made fuel. Synthesis had won, quietly, without anyone noticing."

Rubbermade

To be the result of a faulty condom or improper use of condom. Typically used to describe unwanted kids and accidental pregnancy.
Guy: "Oh shit the condom broke!"
Girl: "What?"
Guy: "I'm kidding, I don't use condoms".
Girl: "!!!"
Guy: "Well at least it wont be a rubbermade baby...Peace!"
Rubbermade by Dick Thimble November 5, 2010

Rubbermatch 

Most commonly used in boxing and MMA (mixed martial-arts), a rubbermatch is the third (and tie-breaking) match between two teams or individuals who have previously beaten each other once.

After the outcomes of Couture vs Liddell 1 & 2, a rubbermatch was inevitable to decide the superior fighter.
Rubbermatch by tahoe5280 May 16, 2006

rubbermasterbaters 

Also known as Crocks.

When one doesn't want to where regular shoes do to laziness, not usually used for masterbating but I'm sure if effective. Worn for comfort not style.
Amanda tells Kyle oh my God you're not really planning on leaving the house with your rubbermasterbaters on those are for inside only
rubbermasterbaters by RoseJones February 7, 2020

Rubbergate 

Any predictament in which your parent or legal gaurdian has found your hidden stash of condoms, rubbers, or profolactics. Which usually does not end well.
"Did you pull a Dick Nixon and a rubbergate scandal again?"
It is said of the situation where a person has the bad luck to make contact with his testicles against an undefined surface or object, intentioned or not.
Given the nature of the word, it is more appropriate to design cases where the interaction is made with a moving object, for example, a ball.
Although it is extremely painful for the victim, it tends to be considerably funny to people who witness it.
Today in the baseball game the pitcher took a nutshot; the baseball hit him in the nuts.

Man, I just watched the funniest nutshot video ever.
Nutshot by Uberflaven March 1, 2009
Word of the Day on June 26, 2026