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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...
...Jackson, the other to Ralph W. Peakes and Joseph S. Reichert. All three men developed their processes when they worked for the War Department, originally filed for the patents in 1929. Both patents are based on the same discovery -that wool becomes unshrinkable when soaked in tertiary amyl or butyl hypochlorite, chemicals related to bleaching powder. After a half-hour's soaking in this solution, heated to 104° F., the wool absorbs 1½% of chlorine. It can then be washed in hot or cold water without shrinking...
...experiments at keeping frescoes fresh. First sign of success in their collaboration came when they used a spray of glycerine, lime, marble dust and water. But no matter how little glycerine they used it would appear later in small beads on the surface of the plaster. Then they tried butyl alcohol (butanol) with the same ingredients. This worked, but made the plaster surface too soft to work on. The final formula was the simplest: equal parts of butanol and water. Muralist Rivera, pleased as Punch, confirmed their claim that spraying walls with this preparation every three or four hours enables...
Artificial Musk. The male musk deer ranges Central Asia with an alluring odor. Perfumers cannot get enough of the natural musk for their trade, have got chemists to produce trinitro-t-butyl toluene which smells exactly like the real stuff. At Washington, Julian Werner Hill and Wallace Hume Carothers of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. described new ways of imitating musk...
...Granite Mountain Shaft, Butte, Mont., where 13 years ago 162 men lost their lives in a fire because warning was not spread quickly enough. At first pleasant odors were used but were not successful. Workmen did not run when they .sniffed violets or roses. But when experimenters released butyl mercaptan which smells like garlic, miners dropped their tools at once, raced for the exit. The stench safety method has been adopted by the American Standards Association which suggests to mine operators how best to conserve their employes' lives. Although the U.S. Bureau of Mines cannot force operators to obey American...