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What does vulcanization mean?

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Noun
  1. A process by which rubber is hardened using heat and sulphur.
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Additionally, it is used in fungicides, germicides, herbicides, and insecticides, and as a catalyst in the vulcanization process.
In india-rubber combs the teeth are moulded to shape and the whole hardened by vulcanization.
It is used in the manufacture of antioxidants, pharmaceuticals, dyes, and in the vulcanization of rubber.
The heat used in vulcanization reaches as much as three hundred degrees Fahrenheit.
Such a material, called an accelerator, causes vulcanization to proceed more rapidly or at lower temperatures.
Fatty acids are incorporated into rubber during the vulcanization process.

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