Word: elasticize
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Americans, WPB reported after questioning 5,000 families in 68 localities, are bearing up nobly under the wartime sacrifices of consumers' goods. What really bothers them is not the big things so much as the lack of such simple but indispensable doodads as bobbie pins, metal pot scourers, flashlight...
No one has ever duplicated shellac's complicated chemical structure. But Chem ist C. G. Harford, of the Arthur D. Little laboratory in Cambridge, Mass., found that a resin named zein, derived from corn, behaved very much like shellac. A drawback, however, was that in solution zein had a...
Every morning for 25 years (1870-95) a solemn, bearded man in frock coat, droopy trousers and elastic-sided boots opened Queen Victoria's mail. General Sir Henry Frederick Ponsonby was the Widow of Windsor's Private Secretary. Over the years, in daily letters to his wife and...
> Less elastic and flexible than natural rubber, synthetic treads crack, chip and separate more quickly, have poor resistance to heat. In truck tires, even when mixed with 20-30% of natural rubber, synthetic rubber heats up badly, has a record of frequent blowouts.
The new material, which has no chemical resemblance to rubber, is a vinyl chloride plastic with unusual elastic properties. It contains a plasticizer (unidentified) that enables it to keep its elasticity up to a relatively high temperature (250°F. and it is impervious to sun, water, acids and alkalis...