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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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elastomer and a thermoplastic. Once the
rubber is
vulcanized, it is a thermoset. Most
rubber in
everyday use is
vulcanized to a
point where it
shares properties...
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products are made with
vulcanized rubber,
including tires, shoe soles, hoses, and
conveyor belts. The term
vulcanization is
derived from Vulcan, the...
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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 Patent...
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elastomers which can be
moulded easily unlike conventional natural rubber vulcanized rubber.
Their structure is
stabilized by cross-linking by crystallites...
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chemical exposure better than sulfur-
vulcanized rubber. Each
method offers distinct properties to the
rubber,
tailored to
specific applications and...
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determining the temperature-retraction
characteristics of
stretched vulcanized rubber.
Since many
thermoplastic elastomers have a
yield point at 5% to 20%...
- polyisoprene,
which is
chemically similar to
natural rubber.
Charles Goodyear's
discovery of
vulcanization,
involving the
heating of
polyisoprene with sulfur...
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named after American Charles Goodyear (1800–1860),
inventor of
vulcanized rubber. The
first Goodyear tires became po****r
because they were easily...
- name for a
material generically known as hard
rubber or vulcanite,
obtained via
vulcanizing natural rubber for
prolonged periods.
Ebonite may
contain from...
