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UK
/vˈʌlkɐnˌaɪt/
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NOUN
- a hard nonresilient rubber formed by vulcanizing natural rubber
How To Use vulcanite In A Sentence
- Vulcanites, such as basalt and fire opal, will be formed within erupted magma where cooling is rapid and only tiny crystals have the chance to form.
- (of vulcanite), fixed at the bottom of the tanks, into rubber buckets, and is ready for use in the preparation of dynamite, or any of the various forms of gelatine compounds, smokeless powders, &c., such as cordite, ballistite, and many others. Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
- There is jewelry incorporating hair, enamel, engraving, casting, and die-stamping, as well as objects made from unusual materials such as tortoiseshell, wood, and vulcanite.
- Tortoiseshell, vulcanite, wood, and coral became part of the new jewelry repertory.
- The recordings on huge aluminium based vulcanite discs were in danger of disintegrating, but the staff at the Linguistics Department have managed to preserve them.
- There is jewelry incorporating hair, enamel, engraving, casting, and die-stamping, as well as objects made from unusual materials such as tortoiseshell, wood, and vulcanite.
- Stephen Spender… was now living in a chic apartment with a colour scheme out of Vogue, a huge vulcanite writing-desk and over the fireplace an abstract picture by Wyndham Lewis.
- 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.