Word: resinous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simple process for taking the salts out of sea water, for the recovery of valuable metals dissolved in mine wastes, until recently seemed too good to be true. But such jobs have now been done in the laboratory with cheap synthetic resin (i.e., a "plastic") which can be recovered, used over & over. These "Amberlite" resins are now made in quantity by Resinous Products & Chemical Co. of Philadelphia under patents owned by the British Government. Not for years have chemists seen such a big new field of research opened. They have huge potential uses. Examples...
Making It Stick. Wood veneer (plywood) planes are 25 years old. The first rickety-looking planes were flown in World War I-but mould and temperature changes ate away the casein (milk base) glues which held their veneers together. Not until the plastics industry evolved a phenolic resin glue with a permanent grip were strong wood airplanes possible...
...shown by Henry Ford in Dearborn last week. It was the product of his own long dream-that industry should use more farm crops-and of the chemical inventiveness of his protege, 32-year-old Robert Allen Boyer (TIME, Nov. 11). His plastic, 70% cellulose with a resin binder, is made of soybeans, wheat, cotton, hides, plus a few imported, now hard-to-get ingredients (cork, rubber, tung oil, ramie-formerly used to wrap Egyptian mummies). Last fall Boyer turned out a few panels, had his lanky boss whang at them harmlessly with an ax, was overjoyed when Ford gave...
Battery practice resulted in nothing more than a shock for the Mount Auburn Street humorists when they discovered that Prexy Coles Phinizy, slated to take the mound Thursday when the two teams meet in their annual jeu de baseball (Fr.), didn't know how to use resin or cut plug and had never heard...
...plastic which softens and purifies water for home or industrial use far more efficiently than the silicates now commonly used was announced by Robert James Myers of Resinous Products & Chemical Co. of Philadelphia. Made of resin, this plastic is the first whose chemical, rather than physical, properties are employed...