Definitionn. process of treating rubber or rubberlike materials with sulphur at great heat to improve elasticity and strength or to harden them
Last update: June 30, 2015
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Sulphur when warmed with caoutchouc combines with it, and on this fact the vulcanization of rubber depends, and also the production, with an excess of sulphur, of the hard black material known as vulcanite or ebonite. [Please select]
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%--The same year (1844) which witnessed the introduction of the telegraph saw the perfection of Goodyear's secret for the vulcanization of India rubber. [Please select]
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Goodyear lived for sixteen years after his discovery of the vulcanization process. [Please select]
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It was in the year 1839, by an accident, that he discovered the true process of vulcanization which cured not the surface alone but the whole mass. [Please select]
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He also invented the perfect India rubber cloth by mixing fiber with the gum a discovery he considered rightly as secondary in importance only to vulcanization. [Please select]
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