Word: butyl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cornelius Arzberger, a Commercial Solvents Corp. researcher, cultured from Louisiana cane-field soil a new bacterial species which ferments sugar to produce industrially useful solvents. He gave it the jaw-cracking name of Clostridium saccharo butyl acetonicum liquefaciens. Then he tried to patent it, as a plant. The patent examiner threw out his claim...
Upshot: no patent on Clostridium saccharo-butyl-acetonicum-liquefaciens...
...Soon to be announced are production plans for Standard of N. J.'s new synthetic Butyl, a chemical cousin of Buna, developed by Standard chemists, made more cheaply than Buna from petroleum gases...
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...
Also last week, President William Stamps Parish of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey announced a new synthetic companion to its German-originated Buna-Butyl. He told his stockholders: "We are in a position to manufacture the 'butyl' rubber from petroleum in any required quantities as rapidly as the necessary plant facilities can be installed." Building now at Baton Rouge is a 10,000 Ib.-a-day Buna plant for Standard, from whom Akron's Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. has already obtained a manufacturing license...