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n. - Process of treating rubber or rubberlike materials with sulphur at great heat to improve elasticity and strength or to harden them.

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  • My fourth question was about the inventor of vulcanisation who went on to make tyres for cars.
  • The vulcanisation of these rubbers was made possible by the usual methods used for natural rubber, with the introduction of unsaturated monomeric units (terpolymers...
  • This is how controlled vulcanisation of the LSR component is reliably assured.
  • When vulcanisation failed the general moved on, but Adams, left with a tonne of the stuff to shift, came up with what turned out to be a brilliant idea.
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