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...West Point chemistry class one day in 1854, Cadet James Abbot Whistler was asked to discuss silicon. He began: "Silicon is a gas." "That will do, Mr. Whistler," said the professor-and shortly thereafter Cadet Whistler was handed his discharge papers. In later years, when he had made himself one of the finest painters of his day, he liked to say: "If silicon had been a gas, I would have been a general...
Rochow received the Bakeland Medal for outstanding work on compounds of silicon. A research chemist for general Electric for 13 years, Rochow was made an associate professor...
Professor Rochow, an industrial chemist before he joined the Harvard faculty in 1948, is an international authority on silicon compounds. This year he will investigate ways of preparing organic silicon compounds which are the base of carborundum, next to diamonds the hardest material known, and in another form free flowing oils which stay find at low temperatures...
...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...