curing process
Hardening over time
A curing process is a procedure that transforms or preserves materials through chemical or physical change.
Concrete cures as it hardens; meat cures with salt or smoke; rubber cures with heat and sulfur.
The term spans food preservation, construction, and manufacturing: The curing process takes several weeks.
What unites these uses is controlled transformation toward a stable, usable state.
- vulcanizationChemically strengthening raw rubber
- saltingApplying sodium chloride
- cross-linkingBonds joining parallel chains
- smokingInhaling burning tobacco
- smoke ringToroidal puff of fumes
drying · air drying · brining · nitrates · resin · epoxy resin · polymerization · tanning · heat treatment · pickling · coating · outgassing · fermenting · dry aging · annealing · tempering · pasteurization · crystallization
- concreteconcrete mixer, concrete pour, concrete slabs, concrete beams, concrete columns
- tobacco farmingtobacco leaf, tobacco leaves, tobacco fields, tobacco field, tobacco barn
preservation vs. decay
curing processdecomposition
Breakdown into simpler parts
rotting · spoilage · putrefaction · degradation · moldering