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  • verb Present participle of vulcanize.

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Examples

  • I have seen a number of old schools in Baltimore and DC reused for a lot of purposes from condos, to art galleries, and even a rubber raft factory (a school gym is the perfect size to house a vulcanizing oven or two).

    Matthew Yglesias » Turning Schools into Schools 2009

  • The other is this STA-54 (ph) material, it's a room temperature vulcanizing goo that the crew has, nozzles that they can squirt some and smooth it out and it has almost the same heat rejection properties as the tile.

    CNN Transcript Aug 11, 2007 2007

  • Students learn to use flexible shafts, burrs, polishing tools, rolling mills, ultrasonic vacuums, and casting and vulcanizing machines.

    You’re Certifiable Joel Naftali Lee 1999

  • Students learn to use flexible shafts, burrs, polishing tools, rolling mills, ultrasonic vacuums, and casting and vulcanizing machines.

    You’re Certifiable Joel Naftali Lee 1999

  • The commercially made plugs which are put together by vulcanizing have such a shape as to enable using a socket outlet with earthing contact.

    1. Protective measures against too high a contact voltage and conduct following electrical accidents Werner Boschitsch 1991

  • But that afternoon there were telegrams to send, the car to be gone over—a tire had been cut by a stone and needed vulcanizing—and, without the car, I walked into the town, doing things that had to be done before we could go.

    The Short Stories Ernest Hemingway 1953

  • The hose pole is then put in something like a fifty foot lathe, and while the pole revolves slowly, it is tightly wrapped with strips of cloth, in order that it may not get out of shape while undergoing the process of vulcanizing.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 Various

  • Goodyear, the inventor of the process of vulcanizing rubber, divided his patent up into many different rights, licensing one company for manufacturing rubber combs, licensing another for hose pipes, another for shoes, another for clothing, and a number of other different rights, for which each company or partner paid a tariff.

    Practical Pointers for Patentees Franklin Cresee

  • Antimony oxides are used in white enameling of metal surfaces, as coloring agents in the manufacture of glass, and as paint pigments; the red sulphides are used in vulcanizing and coloring rubber, as paint pigments, in percussion caps, and in safety matches; and other salts find a wide variety of minor uses in chemical industries and in medicine.

    The Economic Aspect of Geology 1915

  • [38] The process of vulcanizing was made practicable during the ten years ending in 1850.

    Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges 1895

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