Word: butyl
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There was some good news on the rubber front last week: frantic experiments by Standard Oil (N.J.) to improve its famed butyl rubber process have finally produced a way to make much more butyl with the same plant capacity...
...great Rubber Scandal, far from being solved, moved into an even dizzier confusion, a Wonderland where jabberwocky jive talk about buna, butyl and guayule was the only language spoken...
...Standard Oil (N.J.) President William Parish went down to Washington to give a House subcommittee some big news from the synthetic front: 1) Butyl rubber has been so improved by better compounding methods that butyl tires have stood up under 16,000 miles of grueling road tests. So the 60,000 tons of butyl capacity now under way spells serviceable light tires instead of just specialty rubber...
...capacity to produce 800,000 tons in 1944-which begins to approach the United Nations' essential needs. (The civil consumer is out until 1945, at best.) Of that 800,000 tons, 100,000 will be specialty rubbers; 60,000, Standard Oil's famed butyl; 40,000, Du Font's long-established neoprene-strategic for self-sealing gas tanks, oil-resistant hose lines, etc. The rest will be what chemists designate as Buna-S, which has recently given road-test performances up to 130-160% of the best wearing qualities of natural rubber. The emergence of Buna...
When Standard Oil developed a new synthetic rubber called butyl, it turned the process over to I. G. Farben, refused to give it to the U.S. Navy...