vulcanize

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WOTD – 24 February 2012

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vulcanize (third-person singular simple present vulcanizes, present participle vulcanizing, simple past and past participle vulcanized)

  1. (transitive) To treat rubber with heat and (usually) sulfur to harden it and make it more durable.
  2. (intransitive) To undergo such treatment.
    • 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 404:
      These vulcanized hearts, they only become more resistant when you ask for mercy.
    • 2012, Theodore Rochow, Resinography:
      Natural rubber […] vulcanizes readily at the double bonds to give a strong cross-linked structure.

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Galician

Verb

vulcanize

  1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of vulcanizar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

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Verb

vulcanize

  1. inflection of vulcanizar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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