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Word: ameripol (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Goodrich's "Ameripol" is a butadiene rubber, but it is made by cracking petroleum, of which the U. S. has plenty, Germany hardly enough. Cracking yields a gas, which liquefies to give butadiene under pressure. Standard Oil's butyl rubber is also a butadiene from oil-cracking. Last year Chicago's Universal Oil Products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Synthetic Rubber | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

This was Goodrich's way of introducing a new synthetic rubber, patriotically called "Liberty Rubber" or Ameripol (Ameripol-for American raw materials, mostly petroleum; pol-for polymerization, the process of making synthetic rubbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUBBER: Ersatz & Home Grown | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

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