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ebonite

NOUN
  1. a hard nonresilient rubber formed by vulcanizing natural rubber

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  • Rotary furnaces can use any carbon source such as coal, coke, or ebonite as reducing agent, and they can use a variety of fuels, such as oil, coal, or gas.
  • One way that they can be produced is as follows: A sharp-pointed needle is placed perpendicular to a non-conducting plate, such as of resin, ebonite, or glass, with its point very near to or in contact with the plate, and a high voltage Leyden jar a type of capacitor or a static electricity generator is discharged into the needle. Lichtenberg Figures
  • All flutes, for example, whether they are made of glass, ivory, ebonite, or metal, or whether they have a duct, are classified as 421.
  • The platinoid wire is insulated and the covering of silk that insulates it is wound on the ebonite bobbins just where my finger is. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  • The first synthetic material to be used in flute-making was ebonite, also known as vulcanite.
  • The first synthetic material to be used in flute-making was ebonite, also known as vulcanite.
  • Black chairs with the East German equivalent of PVC upholstery and chrome legs, an ebonite console on one wall with some of the panels illuminated. The Striker Portfolio
  • I may mention as a curious thing that these ravenous animals, that devoured everything they came across, even to the ebonite points of our ski-sticks, never made any attempt to break into the provision cases. The South Pole~ At the Pole
  • The further experiment led to the coherer, which is simply a glass or ebonite tube containing metallic filings which connect the two ends of a wire conductor entering the tube. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
  • Corresponding to the jaw is a built-up section, almost a facial codpiece, of iron and ebonite, perhaps housing a radio unit, thrusting forward in black fatality. Gravity's Rainbow
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