vulcanize

English

WOTD – 24 February 2012

Alternative forms

• vulcanise (non-Oxford British spelling)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvʌl.kə.naɪz/

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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) sulfur to harden it and make it more durable.
2. (intransitive) To undergo such treatment.
   • 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 404:

     These vulcanized hearts, they only become more resistant when you ask for mercy.

   • 2012, Theodore Rochow, Resinography:

     Natural rubber […] vulcanizes readily at the double bonds to give a strong cross-linked structure.

Derived terms

• devulcanize
• vulcanisation, vulcanization
• vulcanized fiber
• vulcanizer

 

Related terms

• vulcanicity
• vulcanite
• vulcanology

 

Translations

to harden rubber with heat

• Bulgarian: вулканизирам (bg) (vulkaniziram)
• Catalan: vulcanitzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 硫化 (zh) (liúhuà)

• Dutch: vulkaniseren (nl)
• Finnish: vulkanoida (fi)
• French: vulcaniser (fr)
• Galician: vulcanizar (gl)
• Georgian: ვულკანიზირება (vulḳanizireba)
• German: vulkanisieren (de)
• Ido: vulkanizar (io)
• Italian: vulcanizzare (it)
• Japanese: 加硫する (ja) (かりゅうする, karyū suru)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: вулканизи́ра (vulkanizíra)
• Manx: vulcaanee
• Portuguese: vulcanizar
• Romanian: vulcaniza (ro) f
• Russian: вулканизи́ровать (ru) impf or pf (vulkanizírovatʹ), вулканизова́ть (ru) impf or pf (vulkanizovátʹ)
• Spanish: vulcanizar (es)
• Vietnamese: lưu hóa

See also

• Vulcan
• Vulcanization on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Galician

Verb

vulcanize

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of vulcanizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Verb

vulcanize

1. inflection of vulcanizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative