Word: ameripol
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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...
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...
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...
...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...