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    silicone rubber via room temperature vulcanizing and chloroprene rubber (neoprene) using metal oxides. Vulcanization can be defined as the curing of elastomers...
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    developing de-vulcanization (see tire recycling) processes for recycling of rubber waste but with little success. The details of vulcanization remain murky...
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    Inverse vulcanization is a process that produces polysulfide polymers, which also contain some organic linkers. In contrast, sulfur vulcanization produces...
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    Vulcanized fibre also known as red fibre is a laminated plastic composed of only cellulose. This material is a tough, resilient, hornlike material that...
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  • properties and applications. Vulcanization of rubber can be categorized primarily into two types: sulfur and peroxide vulcanization. Both chemical processes...
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    footwear under the Goodyear vulcanization process. William Henry Goodyear, his son Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company Vulcanization Zumdahl, Steven; Zumdahl...
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    is called vulcanization. The sulfur chains attach themselves to the allylic carbon atoms, which are adjacent to C=C linkages. Vulcanization is a step...
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    and resistance to solvents. Vulcanization of rubber also helps the football resist moderate heat and cold. Vulcanization helped create inflatable bladders...
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    oxidization, but it can be stabilized through a heating process called vulcanization. Vulcanization is a process by which the rubber is heated and sulfur, peroxide...
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    (requiring vulcanization) but may also be thermoplastic (see thermoplastic elastomer). The long polymer chains cross-link during curing (i.e., vulcanizing). The...
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    to −30 °C for new types. In terms of vulcanization, the standard method for the old type is amine vulcanization. To minimize permanent deformation, the...
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    resins, such as unsaturated polyester and epoxy resin, and the term vulcanization is characteristically used for rubbers. When polymer chains are crosslinked...
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    index, cures more rapidly than a compound with a higher vulcanization index. Optimum vulcanization time at the experimental temperature employed (top), which...
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  • spin casting process typically uses vulcanized silicone or organic rubber as the mold-making substrate. Vulcanization is an integral step that occurs halfway...
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    tire wear. In the Philippines, roadside tire repair shops are called vulcanizing shops in Philippine English. They specialize in quickly and cheaply repairing...
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    NVF Company, formerly known as National Vulcanized Fiber, was a private company based in Yorklyn, Delaware. One of its original products, a sheet-like...
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    with the formula C6H4(NH)SC=S. A white solid, it is used in the sulfur vulcanization of rubber. The molecule is planar with a C=S double bond, so the name...
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  • lowers the pH, thereby causing gelation. In the next process step, vulcanization locks the foam into a uniform bubble distribution. After the foamer...
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    brand name for a material generically known as hard rubber, obtained via vulcanizing natural rubber for prolonged periods. Ebonite may contain from 25% to...
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  • that undergo a vulcanization process during their manufacturing, imparting elastomeric properties to the final product. Vulcanization involves the cross-linking...
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    thread and stuffed with feathers. Modern tennis balls are made of hollow vulcanized rubber with a felt coating. Traditionally white, the predominant colour...
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  • described, particularly in the United States, as "self-fusing", or "self-vulcanizing". In the US Air Force (and elsewhere) it is called centerline tape due...
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    opposing teams use ice hockey sticks to control, advance, and shoot a vulcanized rubber hockey puck into the other team's net. Each goal is worth one point...
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  • high tensile strength (greater than 2800 psi) and a two-hour vulcanization time. Vulcanization is the process by which natural rubber is strengthened by...
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    the vulcanization process Vulcanizing accelerators are complex organic compounds that speed up the vulcanization Activators assist the vulcanization. The...
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    Ironworking Steel Nanomaterials Paper Plastic Rammed earth Recycling Rubber Vulcanization Textile Loom Spinning wheel Biotechnology Birth control Blood transfusion...
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  • Vulcanite (hard rubber) (aka Ebonite), vulcanized rubber Vulcanite (artificial stone), artificial stone Vulcanization Vulcanoid This disambiguation page lists...
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    automobile tires. Because of the heat and sulfur, the process was named vulcanization, after the Roman god of the forge and volcanism. Being abundantly available...
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    "activator" for accelerated rubber sulfur vulcanization. As discovered in the early days of vulcanization, zinc has a beneficial effect on the reaction...
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    propylene, and a diene comonomer that enables crosslinking via sulfur vulcanization. Typically used dienes in the manufacture of EPDM rubbers are ethylidene...
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