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"Yes!" say over 200 firms who have test-irradiated products with the G-E Electron-Beam Generator O N T I N U E D business success for most companies rests on their ability to develop new products or C improve existing ones. Industry's hottest basic research tool in this battle for future markets is the General Electric Electron-Beam Generator. High-energy electrons can change the fundamental structure of familiar materials — give them completely different properties. W i t h the generator pictured above at
The Atlantic Refining Co., Philadelphia, research has formed higher-octane gasolines, changed lubricant vis cosity, prodμced hydrazine rocket f u e l from ammonia. Other products which have been test-irradiated in clude polyethylene, resins, tile, wood, cellophane, sili cones, rubber, waxes, g y p s u m , adliesivcs, lenses, fat emulsion, drugs, surgical sutures, m e a t and other foods. T o help you take out some "business insurance," have your G-E x-ray representative initiate a mutual investi gation of the potential of irradiation for you. O r write for folder "Electron Chemistry New F r o n t i e r of Science." Address X-Ray Department, General Electric Company, Milwaukee 1, Wis. Ask for Pub. AP-84.
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