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...chemist was astonished. He had put his finger on a whitish deposit covering the inside of a glass vessel not much bigger than a thimble. He expected this substance to crumble at his touch. Instead, it came out intact, like a smooth, tough vellum paper. It stood on his desk, forming a model of the vessel which it had lined...
This happened not long ago in the chemical engineering laboratories of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Associate Professor Ernst Alfred Hauser and a blonde, slim young woman chemist who was his co-worker were investigating the properties and behavior of bentonite. Mined in Canada and the western U. S., bentonite is a kind of clay which has the property of swelling when it is wetted, absorbing up to ten times its own volume of water. It is used for foundry molding, in tooth pastes, face powder and facial mud packs...
...toothbrush with synthetic bristles replacing the standard hog bristles imported from northern China. These new synthetic bristles are actually coarse strands of Fibre 66, and Weco claims they absorb only 20% as much moisture and dry much more quickly than the natural variety. Developed by the late Du Pont Chemist W. H. Carothers, Fibre 66 in bristle form is called "Exton," is made by forcing through small openings a synthetic resin known as "nylon," thus producing filaments in much the same way that rayon is manufactured. Because diameter of the bristles can be regulated in production, definite standards of "hardness...
...less than $15,000 yearly. Of the remaining 16, ten got $25,000 or more, and four made more than $50,000. The top four were Photography Expert Charles E. K. Mees of Eastman Kodak Co. ($54,000); Physicist-Engineer Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories ($55,000); Chemist Charles M. A. Stine of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. ($65,000); Chemist George Henry Clowes of Eli Lilly & Co. (drugs...
...Last year an English textile chemist, A. J. Hall, invented a process which consists of dipping wool in sulfuryl chloride, a chemical used in dry cleaning, but the formula's commercial possibilities have not yet been determined...