vulcanize

English

WOTD – 24 February 2012    

Alternative forms

• vulcanise (mainly UK)

Verb

vulcanize (third-person singular simple present vulcanizes, present participle vulcanizing, simple past and past participle vulcanized)

1. (transitive) To treat rubber with heat and (usually) sulphur to harden it and make it more durable.
2. To desertify or create a xeric landscape

Derived terms

• vulcanisation, vulcanization
• vulcanized fiber
• vulcanizer

Related terms

• vulcanicity
• vulcanite
• vulcanology

Translations

to harden rubber with heat

• Bulgarian: вулканизирам (bg) (vulkaniziram)
• Catalan: vulcanitzar (ca)
• Dutch: vulcanizeren
• Finnish: vulkanoida (fi)
• German: vulkanisieren (de)

• Macedonian: вулканизира (mk) (vulkanizíra)
• Russian: вулканизи́ровать (ru) (vulkanizírovat') impf., вулканизова́ть (ru) (vulkanizovát') impf.
• Spanish: vulcanizar (es)

See also

• Vulcan
• Vulcanization on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Vulcanization

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Portuguese

Verb

vulcanize

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of vulcanizar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of vulcanizar
3. first-person singular imperative of vulcanizar
4. third-person singular imperative of vulcanizar