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Vulcanize vs Kerite - What's the difference?

vulcanize | kerite |

As a verb vulcanize

is to treat rubber with heat and (usually) sulphur to harden it and make it more durable.

As a noun kerite is

a compound in which tar or asphalt combined with animal or vegetable oils is vulcanized by sulphur, the product closely resembling rubber; formerly used as an insulating material in telegraphy.

vulcanize

English

Alternative forms

* vulcanise (non-Oxford British spelling)

Verb

  • To treat rubber with heat and (usually) sulphur to harden it and make it more durable.
  • To desertify or make (something, such as a landscape) xeric.

    • Derived terms

    * devulcanize * vulcanisation, vulcanization * vulcanized fiber * vulcanizer

    Related terms

    * vulcanicity * vulcanite * vulcanology

    See also

    * Vulcan * (projectlink) ----

    kerite

    English

    Noun

  • A compound in which tar or asphalt combined with animal or vegetable oils is vulcanized by sulphur, the product closely resembling rubber; formerly used as an insulating material in telegraphy.
    • (Webster 1913)