How is a seal different from a gasket?

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How is a seal different from a gasket?
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• Industries require a lot of products to meet
  their requirements. There is a huge list of tiny
  products without which things would come to
  standstill. A few of them are molded products.
• When you talk about molded rubber products,
  gaskets and seals would come to the mind. They
  may seem to be similar but the truth is that they
  are little different from each other. The main
  difference between gaskets and seals is that
  while you use a gasket to seal components that
  have a flat surface while seals are meant for
  surfaces that rotate like engine parts, shafts
  and pumps. Gaskets are for components that are
  static whereas seals are for parts that rotate.

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• Also, seals are round and flat whereas gaskets
  come in different shapes.
• Gaskets are used in transportation, electricity
  generation, oil and gas and paper and pulp
  industry.
• Though gaskets and seals may look like ordinary
  products, they are very important. Just imagine
  how your vehicles would run when there are no
  seals for the engine to function. The whole
  automobile industry would come to a standstill
  without seals. This indicates that no matter how
  insignificant a product looks at times you cant
  do without it.
• There are other molded rubber products as well
  and they are timing belt and O Rings.

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• A gasket is meant to seal static components
  whereas a seal is ideal for surfaces that rotate
  such as engine parts.
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