Word: silicones
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answer, according to Linde, is to treat the fibers with a small amount (.25%) of vinyl siloxane, a compound whose plasticlike molecules contain atoms of silicon. These act as a bridge, the silicon end of the molecule sticking tight to the glass while the other end cleaves to the plastic. The bond is so strong that the glass-plastic combination does not lose its strength even when boiled for two hours...
...cuts. RCA is contributing a 90% saving in the use of cobalt by developing an electrostatic picture tube and redesigning loudspeakers. In Washington last week, enterprising Philco became the first manufacturer to demonstrate a new-model wartime TV set that saves 26% in copper, 51% in ferrite, 58% in silicon steel, 68% in aluminum, 15% in nickel, and eliminates entirely the use of the critical alloy, Alnico...
Steel & Copper. A case in point was a big shipment of silicon steel (vital for electrical equipment) by Boston's Pacific Trading Corp. Pacific Trading's President Shao Ti Hsu calmly told O'Conor's Senate subcommittee that he bought the steel in Belgium and France, shipped it to China via New York. Did Hsu know that it is illegal to export silicon steel from the U.S. to Communist China? Yes, said Hsu, but the Commerce Department had told him that it was O.K. as long as the steel had not originated in the U.S. That...