Crossword-Solution: VULCANISE
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Harden rubber by treating it with sulphur at a very high temperature | 1 answer |
| vulcanize | 1 answer |
| TREAT rubber/rubberlike material with sulfur/sulphur | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with VULCANISE (4)
This matter is, however, not so great a drawback as might be imagined, for reasonably well prepared consignments of standard crepe or sheet differ but little from one another, and the difference is mainly in the ease with which they break down, or the rate or speed with which they vulcanise, and not with the properties of the vulcanised product.
The rate of cure may be expressed in terms of the time taken to vulcanise the rubber at a constant temperature (in our case 138° C.), so as to give an elongation of 850 per cent.
But if litharge be a constituent, it is found that acetone-extracted rubber will hardly vulcanise at all.
From this, it follows that a rubber giving a low acetone extract may be found to vulcanise exceptionally slowly in a mixing containing litharge, whereas it shows no such defect when compounded with sulphur only.[51] Litharge is used to a very large extent, as it has a balancing effect in a rubber compound--that is to say, it allows of appreciable variation in vulcanising conditions, without corresponding alteration in the state of cure.[52] [51] _Journal Soc.