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See Caoutchouc.
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An oily, volatile hydrocarbon, obtained by the distillation of caoutchouc or guttaipercha.
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The English form of the Spanish word Caon.
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A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses.
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A former name for a euphorbiaceous genus (Hevea) of South American trees, the principal source of caoutchouc.
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A white, amorphous, tenacious substance resembling caoutchouc, and obtained as an insoluble residue of mastic.
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A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous tree Siphonia elastica or Hevea caoutchouc), Asia, and Africa. Being impermeable to liquids and gases, and not readly affected by exposure to air, acids, and alkalies, it is used, especially when vulcanized, for many purposes in the arts and in manufactures. Also called India rubber (because it was first brought from India, and was formerly used chiefly for erasing pencil marks) and gum elastic. See Vulcanization.
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An eraser, usually made of caoutchouc.
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A milky or colored juice in certain plants in cavities (called latex cells or latex tubes). It contains the peculiar principles of the plants, whether aromatic, bitter, or acid, and in many instances yields caoutchouc upon coagulation.
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A small caon; a narrow valley or glen; also, but less frequently, an open valley.
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A very large marine turtle (Thalassochelys caretta, / caouana), common in the warmer parts of the Atlantic Ocean, from Brazil to Cape Cod; -- called also logger-headed turtle.
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A caoutchouc like substance obtained from the milky juice of the East Indian Euphorbia Kattimundoo. It is used as a cement.
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India rubber; caoutchouc.
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An inflammable, volatile, oily, liquid hydrocarbon, obtained by the destructive distillation of caoutchouc.
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See Caoutchin.
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To change the properties of, as caoutchouc, or India rubber, by the process of vulcanization.
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To combine or impregnate with sulphur or any of its compounds; as, to sulphurize caoutchouc in vulcanizing.
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The act or process of imparting to caoutchouc, gutta-percha, or the like, greater elasticity, durability, or hardness by heating with sulphur under pressure.
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A Mexican and Central American tree (Castilloa elastica and C. Markhamiana) related to the breadfruit tree. Its milky juice contains caoutchouc. Called also ule tree.
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One who, or that which, vulcanizes; esp., an apparatus for vulcanizing caoutchouc.
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