Word: ameripol
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Butadiene Polymers. The most useful of these units is butadiene, a liquid closely related to butane, hence easily made from natural gas, petroleum refinery vapors or (less easily) from alcohol. Buna, butyl, Ameripol and Perbunan are all based on butadiene...
Four other elastomers are made from butadiene: Perbunan, Chemigum, Hycar and Ameripol. Perbunan is made with acrylonitrile but the formulas of the others have not been published. All are highly resistant to oil and are used for oil hose, gasoline hose and gaskets. Hycar makes an excellent ebonite, or hard rubber, when vulcanized. Ameripol is featured for tires by Goodrich. None of these is included in the Baruch program; they are in production without emergency Government financing...
...licensed them in turn to several U.S. rubber processors. Chemists of the U.S. Rubber Co. discovered that polymerization of butadiene was easier when it was emulsified in soapy water and converted by pressure into a milky, latex-like dispersion. This method is now used in Germany. Goodrich's Ameripol rubber is made by a similar emulsion process...
...Newest entry in the field is Ameripol, a polymerization of U. S. materials proudly announced this summer by Goodrich. Developed secretly in Goodrich's laboratory, Ameripol is also a Buna cousin, is so good that Goodrich is now producing around 150 Ameripol tires a day, claims that they wear as well as natural rubber, show more resistance to heat, aging, sunlight...
...Ameripol is Goodrich's second important synthetic; its first, Koroseal. Both were developed in the laboratory of Goodrich's synthetic whiz, Waldo Semon. Goodrich is building a $300,000 plant in Akron to make tires of at least 50% Ameripol...