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Died. Vladimir Nikolaevich Ipatieff, 85, Russia's chief of chemical research during World War I, who developed a polymerization process for making high-octane gasoline; in Chicago...
When it became apparent in Moscow that further blandishments would be futile, Ipatieff was expelled from the Academy and denounced as a traitor under articles Nos. 130 and 133 of the new Soviet Constitution. Last week the old scientist was grieved by news that his son, a Moscow chemistry teacher, had ridiculed his reasons for not returning, had "scathingly denounced" him. Dr. Ipatieff looked up the word "scathingly" in a Russian-English dictionary, sighed...
High-Test. By using phosphoric acid as a catalyst, Dr. Vladimir N. Ipatieff of Chicago obtained from ethylene, propylene and other by-product gases a motor fuel which he said last week increased the speed of an Army airplane by 35 m. p. h. Best available high-test gasolines have an "octane rating" of 76. Dr. Ipatieff believed himself well on the way to a 100-octane motor fuel, great goal of petroleum chemists...
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