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Answer for the clue "A hard nonresilient rubber formed by vulcanizing natural rubber ", 9 letters:
vulcanite

Word definitions for vulcanite in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a hard nonresilient rubber formed by vulcanizing natural rubber [syn: hard rubber , ebonite ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vulcanite \Vul"can*ite\, n. Hard rubber produced by vulcanizing with a large proportion of sulphur.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Vulcanite may refer to: Vulcanite (mineral) , the mineral Vulcanite (hard rubber) (aka Ebonite), vulcanized rubber Vulcanite (artificial stone) , artificial stone

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A hard rubber made by vulcanization with sulfur; ebonite. 2 (lb en mineral) A rare mineral, copper telluride.

Usage examples of vulcanite.

Paul and Beste-Chetwynde got out, stretched themselves, and were led across a floor of bottle-green glass into the dining-room, where Mrs Beste-Chetwynde was already seated at the vulcanite table beginning her luncheon.

Then turn off the gas, spoon that snow into a vulcanite container of the required thickness, and ram it down with a vulcanite plunger into a rod of the required hardness.

The one Patrick owned had been black vulcanite with a thin yellow spiral down the barrel.

Innumerable tubes of glass, metal and a kind of vulcanite conveyed blood and chemicals over the whole system.

The Vulcanite rocks glowed white-hot, heating the large, metal container of water that would create the steam necessary to fuel the Burrower.

Hart had one hefty blue vulcanite suitcase on wheels, a kind of cabin trunk, called Globetrotter.

I hastily slipped off one of the rubber tubes from my stethoscope and inserted into one end of it a vulcanite ear-speculum to serve as a funnel.

I grabbed out the switch board, sliding out the vulcanite plate which carried the switch-control of the blue circle.

I crouched down on my heels, and with my two arms out before me I slipped the nails of each forefinger under the vulcanite base of the blue circle, which I lifted very gently so that when the base was far enough from the floor I could push the tips of my fingers underneath.

In The Lancet of December 10, 1881, there is an account of a vulcanite tooth-plate which was swallowed and passed forty-two hours later.