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Vulcanization (British English: Vulcanisation) is a
range of
processes for
hardening rubbers. The term
originally referred exclusively to the treatment...
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Sulfur vulcanization is a
chemical process for
converting natural rubber or
related polymers into
materials of
varying hardness, elasticity, and mechanical...
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Vulcanized fibre or red
fibre is a
laminated plastic composed of only cellulose. The
material is a tough, resilient,
hornlike material that is lighter...
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construction to
speed the
curing of
building materials, and in
sulfur vulcanization to
produce rubber products such as tyres. In fire investigation, accelerants...
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Inverse vulcanization is a
process that
produces polysulfide polymers,
which also
contain some
organic linkers. In contrast,
sulfur vulcanization produces...
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permanent mold. The
vulcanizing press or
vulcanizer uniformly compresses the mold
while exposing it to heat for
several hours. The
vulcanizer consists of a...
- NVF Company,
formerly known as
National Vulcanized Fiber, was a
private company based in Yorklyn, Delaware. One of its
original products, a sheet-like...
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American self-taught
chemist and
manufacturing engineer who
developed vulcanized rubber, for
which he
received patent number 3633 from the
United States...
- described,
particularly in the
United States, as "self-fusing", or "self-
vulcanizing". In the US Air
Force (and elsewhere) it is
called centerline tape due...
- of
naphtha as a
rubber solvent in 1779.
Charles Goodyear redeveloped vulcanization in 1839,
although Mesoamericans had used
stabilized rubber for balls...
