vulcanize
transitive verbTo improve the strength, resiliency, and freedom from stickiness and odor of (rubber, for example) by combining with sulfur or other additives in the presence of heat and pressure.
To subject to the process of vulcanization, as caoutchouc
To admit of vulcanization.
Also spelled
To change the properties of, as caoutchouc, or India rubber, by the process of vulcanization.
transitive verbpaper, paper pulp, or other fiber, chemically treated, as with metallic chlorides, so as to form a substance resembling ebonite in texture, hardness, etc.
transitive verbIndia rubber, vulcanized.
verbTo treat
To
undergo vulcanization