Word: freon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many a jungle-slogging G.I., Bridgeport Brass Co.'s DDT bug bomb was almost as good a friend as his rifle. When the war ended, the company dressed up its Aer-a-sol (DDT expelled by Freon gas) dispenser in civilian clothes, and struck a retail bonanza. Last week Bridgeport Brass thought it saw more pay dirt; it planned to apply the Aer-a-sol principle to dozens of other products...
...held over 100 patents, uncovered in dichlorodifluoromethane (trade name, Freon) a nontoxic, non-inflammable gas that became America's No. 1 refrigerant, later served as a high-priority war weapon for killing tropical insects...
...hunter" pulls a trigger, releases a high-pressure charge which saturates the air of tent, hut, or dugout with a quick insect-killing mixture of sesame oil and extract of pyrethrum flowers, vaporized by Freon. Aerosol, says the Army, tracks down mosquitoes to the last, remote fold of clothing and tent. Chief producer of aerosol is Westinghouse. But Freon is still the essential spreading agent of aerosol...
...owners of refrigerators and cooling systems now in good working order, the shortage is theoretical. Once sealed in, Freon is good indefinitely, does not wear out or deteriorate. Trouble is that it may leak out. The trade magazine, Electrical Merchandizing, warned its refrigerator-dealer readers: "Make a complete leak test a part of every service call." But citizens whose Freon is leaking may as well order ice. Freon is at the front...
...Longtime board chairman of the American Chemical Society and recipient of almost every important medal that organization confers, Midgley in 1930 stood before his admiring fellow chemists in convention at Atlanta. Dramatically he demonstrated Freon's safety by drawing the gas into his lungs, using it to put out a lighted paper. The staid scientists gave him a rowdy ovation...