Word: butyl
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From petroleum alone is made Standard Oil of N.J.'s Butyl rubber. Its building-blocks are olefins (unsaturated hydrocarbons like ethylene) but polymerizing agents remain secret. It is a superior synthetic rubber except that it is not oil-resistant...
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...
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...