LETTERS TO THE E D I T O R
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Industrial Alcohol Data DEAR SIR:
I do not often commend the editorial staff of C&EN on t h e excellence of its feature articles, because t h e general level of the articles is so uniformly good, it is difficult to single out o n e that seems worthy of special praise. However, the article, "Industrial Alcohol," which appeared Nov. 19, 1951, is such an excellent one, and since it happens that it is a field in which I a m particularly interested, I am taking this opportunity to commend you and your staff on the data you have presented o n this subject. It is m y humble opinion that it could not b e improved upon either in its comprehensiveness, adequacy, or in the general conclusions drawn as to t h e present status of the alcohol industry and its future possibilities. It is an article that deserves filing for reference purposes and no doubt all who are interested in the technical aspects of this field will find occasion to refer to these.data for many months to come. W I L L I A M L.
Baton
Rouge,
OWEN
La.
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Hope, N. J. Ize All Wet! D E A R SIR:
On the "Containers and Transportation" page ( 5 3 9 8 ) of C&EN for D e c . 17, 1951, please note the first heading: "Packaging Method for Uncarbonized Liquids." Tut! Tut! Are they "unpasteurated" too? JOSEPH A.
Lancaster,
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Errata 2 EDITOR'S NOTB: The letter published below (read by turning page over between alternate lines) illustrates the problem facing readers of I6-JSC w h o may wish to make use of the "Errata" sheets published in the December issue. Errata sheets printed on one side only for the 1 9 5 1 volume of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry may be obtained free by writing to the Reprint Department AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 1155 Sixteenth St., N.W. Washington 6, D . C. P.S. Wearing our I&EC editorial hat for a moment we report our face is beet-red. W e do disclaim the base motives suggested by our loyal yet critical reader Bill Plummer. D E A R SIR:
I do not w i s h t o b e a nuisance or it deliberately difficult for you to read call your attention to the fact that it read this letter than it will b e for of Industrial
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As a reader of C&EN magazines passed on to me I was interested to see in the "News-Scripts" columns for May 7 and May 14, 1951, the item b y Jerome Alexander on "The Mere Elements of Chemistry." Congratulations to him for presenting the elements in a n e w light. Here are a few of the more recently discovered ones:
package specification A N - P - 5 4 references this procedure some time in 1944 or '45. It was also used in a series of proposed Standard Test Methods developed b y t h e Packaging Institute w h i c h were circulated about 1946. The General Mills test used a ball rolled down an inclined trough and hitting the film held in a vertical plane, which a p pears to b e a n e w variation, but its virtues as compared to t h e vertical drop appeal to be doubtful unless there is an unexpected benefit to be gained b y not having the ball rest on the specimen after the impact. Regardless of the origin of the test methods or the details in connection with their use, this company should be commended for its work in getting weather balloons to greater altitude and making possible the delivery of propaganda b e hind the iron curtain.
In C&EN for D e c . 3, 1 9 5 1 , page 5148, there is a brief story entitled, "General Mills Develops N e w Test for Polyethylene." I found this story very interesting and it would appear that the test which was described gave accurate indexes of film durability; however, I wish t o point out that they can hardly b e called "new procedures." T h e method of evaluating film durability by dropping a steel ball from various heights has b e e n used before and I can cite two references, although I do not know of its origin. A military C H E M I C A L
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