NOUN
- process of treating rubber or rubberlike materials with sulphur at great heat to improve elasticity and strength or to harden them
How To Use vulcanization In A Sentence
- Fatty acids are incorporated into rubber during the vulcanization process.
- Natural rubbers, before vulcanization, tend to be sticky and soft at high temperatures, while at low temperatures they are brittle and stiff, making them difficult to process.
- Dynamic - vulcanization PP composites were prepared with twin - screw extruder and dynamic - vulcanization technology.
- It is used in the manufacture of antioxidants, pharmaceuticals, dyes, and in the vulcanization of rubber.
- The vulcanization of thin articles from one twenty-fifth to one-sixteenth inch thick, is done by Parkes 'patented process, that is, dipping it in carbon disulphide for a short time, to which chloride or bromide of sulphur has been added, and when the solvent has evaporated the sulphur remains behind. Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883
- Aniline is used in the manufacture of a number of products including dyes, pharmaceuticals, antioxidants, and vulcanization accelerators in rubber compounds.
- Charles Goodyear paved the way for mass production of "rubbers" when he patented the vulcanization of rubber in 1843, and they were a mainstay of birth-control efforts until the pill emerged as more dependable and convenient. The Birth-Control Riddle
- The invention relates to a sealing device, in particular to a rubber covered wire vulcanization sealing device special for cable conductors, which comprises a sealing body.
- Aniline is used in the manufacture of a number of products including dyes, pharmaceuticals, antioxidants, and vulcanization accelerators in rubber compounds.
- Editor's note: If you follow the link below you will find larger versions of former NASA Chief Scientist John Grunsfeld's "vulcanization". NASA Watch: News: October 2004 Archives