Word: soybeanization
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...Biggest consumer is the paint & varnish industry. Best paint is made from relatively costly, drying linseed oil. Soybean oil is semi-drying, always leaves the paint film slightly sticky. But, mixed with linseed oil, soybean oil makes a cheaper paint good for many purposes. Chemists recently learned how to treat soybean oil so that it takes on the properties of another important but hard-to-get paint ingredient, Chinese tung...
...Soapmakers are using more & more crude soybean oil because, like palm-nut, olive and coconut oils it can be made into an excellent lather-maker which produces suds even in salty sea water...
...Linoleum and oilcloth makers consume soybean oil in large amounts...
...crushed bean which turns into meal, the Commodity Year Book says: "More than 95% . . . is used for feeding livestock and poultry. . . . The feeding of livestock does not lend itself to dramatization and human interest stories, and therefore many people are led to believe that the minor uses of soybean oil meal are the major uses...
...Treated with organic solvents, soybean meal makes a plastic which is light, durable, almost transparent, waterproof, fireproof, rotproof. Many auto parts and countless miscellaneous objects are made of it. A main drawback, which chemists soon expect to overcome, is that it is hygroscopic (too eager to absorb water...