Above, a typical solvent manifold. Shell now offers five high boilers and 11 other solvents in economical mixed loads.
SOLVENTS: Shell Chemical now offers 5 high boilers, 2 medium boilers, 2 low boilers, 4 latent solvents, 2 mutual solvents and 1 unclassifiable, all with mixed load savings With the addition of three h i g h boiling s o l v e n t s —methyl amyl acetate and the c o m p l e t e l y n e w P e n t - O x o n e k e t o - e t h e r and Pent-Oxol* glycol ether —Shell n o w offers y o u a full formulating r a n g e w i t h all the bulk price benefits of s i n g l e - s o u r c e supply. Glance through t h e s e 16 s o l v e n t s listed b e l o w . S e e h o w m a n y y o u are u s i n g currently. If there are any y o u are not u s i n g , perh a p s y o u w o u l d like s a m p l e s of t h e m . 1960, Shell Chemical inI troduced Pent-Oxone, a double-action N AUGUST,
keto-ether hi ah boiling, solvent. At the same time Shell introduced Pent-Oxol, a glycol ether solvent with especial promise as a blush retarding, reasonably quick drying high boiler for nitrocellulose. Now, to round out the high boiling line, Shell Chemical has added methyl amyl acetate.
needs an introduction. It's methyl isobutyl ketone. Shells second medium boiler is mesityl oxide, an unsaturated ketone with very strong solvent properties. 2 low boilers Like methyl isobutyl ketone, Shell's two low boilers are industry standards: methyl ethyl ketone and acetone.
5 high boilers This brings Shell's list of high boilers to five. Pent-Oxone, Pent-Oxol, methyl amyl acetate, ethyl amyl ketone and diacetone alcohol.
4 latent solvents Shell's four latent solvents are ethyl alcohol, isopropyl alcohol, methyl isobutyl carbinol —an isomeric hexyl alcohol — and secondary butyl alcohol, a solvent for many natural resins, gums and oils.
2 medium boilers Shell's major medium boiler scarcely
2 mutual solvents Hexylene glycol and tertiary butyl alco-
hol are excellent co-solvents for many immiscible substances. Unclassifiable Isopropyl ether is not so easy to put a tag on. It is an extractant for fine chemicals, a solvent for ethyl cellulose, and frequently is used to replace ethyl ether where a solvent of lower volatility is wanted. Mixed load savings These 16 solvents are all available in tank cars to drums from any of Shell's nine Industrial Chemical offices. Send for samples. And ask the man from Shell how you can save money through mixed load purchases. •Trademark, Shell Chemical Company
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