vulcanization
noun
vulcanization is a noun meaning “A process by which rubber is hardened using heat and sulphur” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-U-L-C-A-N-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vulcanization is vulcanizations.
What does vulcanization mean?
noun
- 1
A process by which rubber is hardened using heat and sulphur.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce vulcanization?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-NaomiAmethyst-vulcanization.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of vulcanization
- vulcanizations plural
- vulcanisation
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vulcanization?
Vulcanization appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 115,751st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Vulcanization in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense process by which rubber is hardened using heat and sulphur:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | vulcanisation |
| German | Vulkanisation |
| Portuguese | vulcanização |
| Spanish | vulcanización |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does vulcanization come from?
From vulcanize + -ation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).