ebonite

The addition of about fifty per cent. changes the rubber to a hard black substance known as "ebonite," or "hard rubber."

Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges 1895

I may mention as a curious thing that these ravenous animals, that devoured everything they came across, even to the ebonite points of our ski-sticks, never made any attempt to break into the provision cases.

The South Pole~ At the Pole 2009

One way that they can be produced is as follows: A sharp-pointed needle is placed perpendicular to a non-conducting plate, such as of resin, ebonite, or glass, with its point very near to or in contact with the plate, and a high voltage Leyden jar a type of capacitor or a static electricity generator is discharged into the needle.

Lichtenberg Figures 2007

One way that they can be produced is as follows: A sharp-pointed needle is placed perpendicular to a non-conducting plate, such as of resin, ebonite, or glass, with its point very near to or in contact with the plate, and a high voltage Leyden jar a type of capacitor or a static electricity generator is discharged into the needle.

Archive 2007-02-01 2007

I may mention as a curious thing that these ravenous animals, that devoured everything they came across, even to the ebonite points of our ski-sticks, never made any attempt to break into the provision cases.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

The platinoid wire is insulated and the covering of silk that insulates it is wound on the ebonite bobbins just where my finger is.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003

Some of the older anti-Byronists were able to fool with their parameters in systematic ways that would show up on the ebonite meters under the Swiss mountain: there were even a few self-immolations, hoping to draw the hit men down.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

Corresponding to the jaw is a built-up section, almost a facial codpiece, of iron and ebonite, perhaps housing a radio unit, thrusting forward in black fatality.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

Black chairs with the East German equivalent of PVC upholstery and chrome legs, an ebonite console on one wall with some of the panels illuminated.

The Striker Portfolio Hall, Adam 1968

There were conspiratorial glances in his direction, because he had the expression he adopted on big days: his set look, his pipe at an angle, squeezed so tightly between his teeth that he had been known to snap the ebonite tip.

Maigret Bides His Time Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1965