vulcanize

English

WOTD – 24 February 2012

Alternative forms

• vulcanise (non-Oxford British spelling)

Pronunciation

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Verb

1. (transitive) To treat rubber with heat and (usually) sulphur to harden it and make it more durable.
2. (intransitive) To undergo such treatment.
   • 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 (vulkaniziram)
• Catalan: vulcanitzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 硫化 (zh) (liúhuà)

• Dutch: vulcanizeren
• Finnish: vulkanoida (fi)
• French: vulcaniser (fr)
• Galician: vulcanizar (gl)
• Georgian: ვულკანიზირება (vulḳanizireba)
• German: vulkanisieren (de)
• Ido: vulkanizar (io)
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• Italian: vulcanizzare (it)
• Japanese: 加硫する (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: please add this translation if you can

See also

• Vulcan
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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