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Often when people think of Neoprene, they think of people in their black wetsuits going under the water. Though, a lot of people don’t know about Neoprene, like it’s a synthetic rubber created in the 1930s by a scientist at Dupont named Elmer K. Bolton. However, today Neoprene is used for many types of products and has many uses. Here are 5 benefits of neoprene. Cold Resistant - Neoprene is famous for being the main material used for wetsuits, and one of the reasons for this is Neoprene’s cold resistance. There are two types of Neoprene, which are closed cell and open cell foams. Open cell foam Neoprene is softer and closed cell foam Neoprene is harder. Wetsuits use the closed cell foam version of Neoprene. What this means is this type of Neoprene is totally enclosed by its walls, which doesn’t let it connect with other cells. When a wetsuit is made with closed cell foam Neoprene, it’s subjected to a gas such as nitrogen, which makes the Neoprene tighter. The result is the wetsuit will...