Fluorocarbons and the Chemical Specialist OR him, it's just plain fun. For you, it is a fresh, clean shave in the morning. But, for the chemical specialist, the aerosol propellant is front-runner in the zooming fluorocarbon industry. During the year, you and your wife will help to spend over $600 million for aerosols powered by liquefied fluorocarbons •—shaving cream, hair spray, perfume, paints, toothpaste, insecticides. You'll also benefit from fluorocarbons when you take a beer out of the refrigerator or reach into the supermarket freezer for a juicy steak. Almost as much fluorocarbon is used in refrigeration as in propellants. But that's not all. Chemical specialists are now creating new uses with a magician's touch. Out of the hat are coming such items as fluorocarbon-propelled foods, fungicides, and poison ivy balms; fluorocarbon solvents, insulating fluids, and fire extinguishing agents; and a host of new uses for fluorocarbon polymers as gaskets, tubing, lubricants, elastomers. The story of fluorocarbons is one of the many timely and factual reports carried regularly in CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING NEWS. They are read by over 100,000 chemical specialists in management, production, research, and development—the research manager at Lever Brothers, the technical director at Procter and Gamble, the vice-president at Carrier. These are the men who will create the plants and processes for the new fluorocarbon industries—the men who will initiate, specify, and approve every order for chemicals, equipment, instruments, and services. C&EN is the newsmagazine of the chemical world—read by over 100,000 chemical specialists every week—twice as many as any other publication. An American Chemical Society Publication.
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