Word: aquasol
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Abplanalp, the Yonkers, N.Y., inventor and friend of Richard Nixon who devised the aerosol spray valve in the first place and made millions on his invention. Abplanalp showed off another invention that he claims to have worked out in six months of scrawling on notepads: a valve trade-named Aquasol that uses a mixture of water and butane gas as a propellant. Besides getting rid of the fluorocarbons, Aquasol has another advantage: the butane propellant is not in solution but floats in pressurized form at the top of the can, so more of the can's space...
...products of all sorts. Though many companies are looking into replacement for fluorocarbon gas, until now the only alternatives have been highly combustible gases that are unsuited to certain products, including hair sprays. Fluorocarbons, for all their drawbacks, are not combustible; neither is the butane-water mix in the Aquasol system. Anticipating the federal fluorocarbon ban, Gillette and some other manufacturers last year began switching to pump-action containers for their products, but these do not emit the fine, even spray of Abplanalp's aerosol nozzles. If Aquasol passes market tests and proves as popular as aerosol, the nation...
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