Word: polymerization
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...mono-vinylacetylene. They treated it with hydrogen chloride and first thing they knew they had a fine pot of chloroprene. Chloroprene differs from rubber's polymer, isoprene, only in that a chlorine atom replaces the methyl group, so after that the going was fairly easy. They had only to polymerize the chloroprene to the right point, and all of them were experienced polymerizers. When they finished they put a piece of their rubber into a bottle of kerosene, left it 72 hr. When it came out it was still rubber, retained more than half its original strength. (A piece...