Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hard rubber produced by vulcanization.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The harder of the two forms of vulcanized india-rubber, the other form being known as soft rubber.
- noun A name sometimes given to pyroxene, from its being found i n ejected blocks and lavas
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Hard rubber produced by vulcanizing with a large proportion of sulphur.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A hard
rubber made byvulcanization withsulfur ;ebonite
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a hard nonresilient rubber formed by vulcanizing natural rubber
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Examples
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The camera also sports a new easy-grip and specially robust "vulcanite" finish.
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He rested himself against the wooden pillar of the veranda and took aim carefully; then, as he felt the hard vulcanite butt against his bare shoulder, he flinched.
Burmese Days 2002
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LAMB: I wrote down a bunch of words that -- in reading about the rubber -- when you get past the latex, then you get to magnesia, and then you get to turpentine and lime and nitric acid and naphtha, urine, vulcanite.
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Instead, she removed the vulcanite band from inside her left sleeve.
Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973
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Instead, she removed the vulcanite band from inside her left sleeve.
Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973
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Instead, she removed the vulcanite band from inside her left sleeve.
Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973
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Instead of using a diaphragm, they sometimes fix a stem to one of the cores of the electro-magnet, and mount thereon a light disk of vulcanite, wood, ivory, gutta-percha, or any other substance which it is capable of vibrating.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 Various
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Dr. Fowler, of Yarmouthport, Mass., obtained patents for its combination with vulcanite as applied to dentistry and other uses.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 Various
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The false impression is thus produced that the original radiated heat was unaffected by the vulcanite plate; instead of which, as a matter of fact, the vulcanite plate had cut off the radiant heat, becoming heated itself by so doing, and was consequently then the radiating body affecting the thermometer.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883 Various
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D, Fig. 4, gutta percha or vulcanite insulating plate, through which pass numerous very fine platinum wires, each corresponding at its point of contact with those on the circular disk, A.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 Various
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