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...rubber-reclaiming plants the scrap is first sheared and hashed into tiny pieces.It is then sifted past magnets, which draw out any bits of iron. Next it is dumped into a "digester" tank where 1) caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) is added to destroy all cloth fibers and to remove free sulfur (added originally in vulcanizing); 2) coal-tar oils are added to soften the rubber. These added chemicals and decomposed fibers are rinsed out in water sprays and settling tanks. At last the rubber is squeezed into heavy sheets and baled for reprocessing...
Carbon dioxide is an innocuous gas; water charged with it squirts from soda-fountain nozzles to make the fizz in sodas...
...made of relatively abundant materials: 1) caustic soda (sodium hydroxide), 2) sulfur, 3) chlorine, 4) ethylene (a gas sometimes used as an anesthetic...
Thiokol advocates were sure that big-scale production could begin at once. Said jubilant President Willard Dow of Dow Chemical Co.: "The caustic soda we shall derive from salt. Texas alone can supply all the sulfur we shall ever need. Chlorine at present is being allocated, but we can step up production to meet all requirements. Ethylene we can get from oil or from corn, wheat or any other agricultural waste or surplus by first converting it into alcohol...
Vanadium. National Lead got a windfall in the vanadium at Maclntyre. It hopes to get 3,000,000 Ib. a year, worth $2.90 a Ib. as ferro-vanadium. This white metal is vitally needed to increase the tensile strength of steel. As such it will be snapped up like soda pop at a ball game; sale of this by-product alone will rake in almost as much cash in one year as National Lead has spent on the whole Maclntyre development...