Word: acetic
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...This they had treated with hydrogen chloride to obtain chloroprene. Polymerization of the chloroprene had resulted in a sub stance similar to the product obtained by vulcanizing rubber with sulphur. Stopping the polymerization at an intermediate point gave them ? Rubber. In short, they had produced synthetic rubber from acet ylene (product of coal and limestone), salt and water. While the rubber chem ists cheered, the three young du Ponters ? W. H. Carothers, F. B. Downing, Ira Williams ? generously gave most of the credit to a 53-year-old Catholic priest, Rev. Julius Arthur Nieuwland, C.S.C., of Notre...
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