Klarinet Archive - Posting 000541.txt from 1998/11

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] silver and rubber (was wolf tones)
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 21:18:20 -0500

At 02:59 PM 11/14/98 -0800, Doug Sears wrote:
>Chuck Trimble CPA <trimble@-----.net> wrote:
>
>>rubber clarinets are not vulcanized rubber. they were prevalent before
>>vulcanization was invented.
>
>Vulcanization was invented in 1839 by Charles Goodyear.
>
>Here's a quote from some online encyclopedia:
>
>As much as 47 parts of sulfur can be combined with
>100 parts of rubber, resulting in a compound containing 32
>percent sulfur. Such a product is hard and tough, and is
>known as ebonite because of its resemblances to ebony wood.
>It is also called vulcanite or hard rubber. The term hard
>rubber is generally applied to vulcanites of rubber and
>sulfur containing more than 20 percent of combined sulfur.
>
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