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...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...
...plants not only air-condition with Freon, but use it to keep precision tools at a constant temperature. Because of its safety, the U.S. Navy and Maritime Commission use it exclusively on ships and submarines. Then last May the Surgeon General's office showed up with a malarial mosquito-killer called an aerosol, publicized as the "mosquito bomb." The "Mosquito Bomb" is a spray gun holding about one pound of insecticide...
...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...