Word: butyl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when it took over rights to a bacteria-fermentation process for producing a solvent used in artillery explosives; the process had been formulated by Dr. Chaim Weizmann, who years later became the first President of Israel. It was found that a by-product of the Weizmann recipe, butyl acetate, could be used in a marvelous, quick-drying lacquer for cars. Until the Weizmann patents expired in 1936. Commercial Solvents' picture was painted rosy...
...glue itself but the volatile solvents (acetone, butyl acetate, toluene) used to make the glue dry faster that are poisonous as well as intoxicating. Glue manufacturers are trying to find a remedy for the situation. Says Charles D. Miller, president of Tester Corp., Rockford, Ill., makers of model-airplane cement: "We are going to change the formula by reducing the amount of acetone so that the narcotic effect will be slowed down, but I am afraid the kids will just switch to another product...