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World-Wide Chemistry Italian Letter BY RAFFAELE SANSONE Via ,000, with equipment. Work will soon be placed under way. Richard V. Straton, Travis Rudding, San Antonio, is architect. The Fiber Tube ^ Insulating Co., 103 West Third Street, Wilmington, Del., is considering the early rebuilding of the portion of its plant recently destroyed by fire with loss reported in excess of S35fU00, including equipment. The Superior Flake Graphite Co., 3612 South Morgan Street. Chicago, 111., has purchased property at Sixty-sixth Place and South Laramie Avenue, in the Clearing Industrial District, and will have plans prepared at once for a new plant at this location. The initial unit will provide a total floor area of 2">.(HX) sq. ft., and is estimated to cost about SOU.UOO, with equip merit. The company is now occupying a building under lease, and will remove this plant to the neiv location, providing additional machinery for extensive advance in output. The C'erlnit-Teed Products Corporation, Boatmen's Hank Huilding, St. Louis, Mo., manufacturer of paints and varnishes, roofing products, and composition materials, has plans under way for a new one story addition to its plant at Seventeenth and Broad Streets, Last St. Louis, 111. It will be 4") X WU ft., reported to cost about $40,000, with equipment. The company will build, also, an extension to its plant at Marseilles. 111., to be one-storv, 12."> X 2'So ft., designed largely for storage ami distributing service. It will cost close to $00,000. Klipstein & Rathman, 316 North Kixhth Street, St. Louis, are architects. Headquarters of the company are at 100 ICast Forty-second Street, New York. The Cia^ PmJints Co., 100 North Skidmore Street. Columbus, Ohio, has acciuire0,000, and is expected to be rebuilt. The Georgic Creosoting Co.. Brunswick, Ga., has taken over a tract of about 15 acres of land adjoining its local creosoting and wood-preservative works, and will proceed at once with enlargements to increase the capacity more than 0"> per cent. The expansion will cost more than $100,000, including equipment.
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London Letter (Continued from page 7) Film Co., while the report on t h e process is supplied by Messrs C . F. Cross a n d Bevan, t w o of t h e earliest researchers in this field. The company h a s been formed to take over certain patented and improved secret processes for t h e manufacture of cellulose acetate and its conversion into non-inflammable film.
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ISTRY. T h i s is a long report on investigations undertaken " t o complete a rational explanation of the cause of detonation in engines using liquid fuel, with special reference t o the chemical E x a m i n e your side of t h e problem." T h e investigation included an experi. copy free m e n t a l a n d theoretical study of low temperature oxidation of liquid fuels in air, in conjunction with engine experiments to determine t h e relationship between detonation a n d observed chemical action. T h e final conclusion, which is regarded as a discovery of considerable importance t o researchers on t h e "antiknock" problem, is in t h e following terms: B y H A R R Y B . WEISER " I t is found t h a t detonation in an engine using liquid fuel is Professor of Chemistry, Rice Institute due t o the formation of organic peroxides, which become con452 pages 5 1 2 x 8 31 illustrations, centrated in t h e nuclear drops during compression and ignite t h e m simultaneously when t h e detonation temperature of the $ 5 . 0 0 peroxide is reached." I n t e r n a t i o n a l C h e m i c a l Series The report adds t h a t t h e earliest reference t o a possible connection between peroxide formation a n d detonation appears in H1C first chapter deals in a general way with the a paper b y Sir C. Brodie in 1864 to t h e Chemical Society on structure, preparation and properties of gels This " T h e explosibility of the peroxides of the radicals of the organic is followed by separate chapters devoted to the / M c G r a w a c i d s . " T h e experiments referred t o above were made under the typical oxides of iron, chromium, and aluminum. /lull Book direction of Mr. R. O. King, formerly of McGill University. after which che remaining oxides are taken up f Co., Inc. by families in the approximate order in which jf'370 Seventh February 3, 1927 the elements appear in the periodic table y Avenue, N. Y. Se d The last five chapters t a k e up some of the / f r» ?xVm[na more important industrial applications X j o n weiser's A new type of induction motor which, with its control, is even of the hydrous oxides. / H Y D R O U S OXIDES, simpler t o operate t h a n t h e ordinary squirrel cage motor and $5.00. compensator, is announced b y t h e General Electric Company. ^ j> * 1 agree to return the book A complete line of these motors, bearing t h e type designation F T S e e y o u r c o p y t r e e ^postpaid, in 10 days or to rebuilt for it then. a n d ranging in ratings from 7 1 '•> to 50 horsepower, has been placed No obligation t o purchase— / . o n t h e market. no agents—no red tape. Send XLAA****
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General Plastics, Inc., manufacturer of " D u r e z , " a synthetic plastic molding compound, announce the opening of a New York office a t 250 Park Avenue, with Lowell P . Weicker as manager.
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