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CHEMAGINATION IN THE CONQUEST OF SPACE On the earth and beneath it are the p o w e r s that will liberate man from h i s planet. Behind laboratory windows, the chemist marshals these powers i n a million ways—building his knowledge of them, testing their might, stirring them t o usefulness. F r o m Hooker laboratories and plants come scores of earth-born products f o r the space age. A few of them are: Molten alkali salt purges the surface i m purities from titanium and stainless steel, tough missile metals. Trichlorethylene, highly purified, -washes rocket engines clean of the slightest sediment that could trigger a premature e x Sales Offices:
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plosion . . . yet costs no more than regular trichlorethylene used throughout industry for vapor degreasing. Fiuorocarbon o i l s reduce friction to an almost incredible minimum i n gyro stabilizers that steer a rocket. Greases made with stable fluorine provide a safe corrosion barrier i n rocket-fueling lines handling liquid oxygen. Durez plastics flow into shape as thousands of tiny components for missile guid-
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ance and control systems. Solid oxidants for rockets, researched by H o o k e r in cooperation with other leading companies, give promise of important new advances i n propulsion. As industry moves into the space era, more and m o r e industries rely on the basic materials w e develop and supply in quan-
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