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R i c h a r d A. Arnold joins staff of Sohio Chemical, L i m a , Ohio, as a m a r k e t analyst. From D u Pont. Anson R . Cooke joins chemical dep a r t m e n t of Du Pont at Wilmington as research plant pliysiologist. F r o m Okl a h o m a A&M.
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Pierre H. Courouleau n a m e d president general manager of Sarnpi Société d'applications Modernes pour l'industrie, consulting engineers to the chemical industry, Paris. C. L . Cray, Jr., of Midwest Solvents has b e e n elected p r e s i d e n t of Distillers F e e d Research Council. Newly elected first vp is F r a n k ML Sliiprnan of Brown-Forman Distillers Corp.; second vp, E . P . Henderson of Schenley Distillers; secretary, H o w a r d T . Jones, and treasurer, Millard Cox. L. E. Carpenter is executive director. Daniel E d w a r d Cross joins Barrett Division as senior chemical engineer. William G . Dedert named manager of Swenson p u l p and p a p e r division of W h i t i n g Corp. John S. Delphenich joins product engineering division of Dow Corning Corp., Midland, Mich. William H . D r u m m o n d joins production department of Monsanto's pla.stics division in Texas City. Joel Edelstein joins technical staff of resinous-Reslac department of Bord e n Co.'s chemical division. R a y M. E w a l d n a m e d technical services superintendent of Mobay Cf±emical's plant a t New M a r tins ville, W. Va.
Every item i n the Diamond D Blue Line wtii measure with m a x i mum accuracy a n d uniformity. T h e graduations are calibrated w i t h e x treme care and t h e etching is deep and clear t o a f f o r d m a x i m u m r e a d ability. The pigment i n the Diamond D B l u e L i n e is heat-fused into the graduations a n d is impervious to practically every c h e m -
The Diamond D Blue L i n e is a n n e a l e d i n elect r i c a l l y - c o n t r o l l e d lehrs t o relieve i n t e r n a l strain a n d each piece is double tested tc rigid standards. W h e n y o u need laboratory glassware w i t h built - m accuracy a n d u n i f o r m i t y , specify t h e Diamond D Blue Line.
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Field Gets Alpha Chi Sigma Scroll
W a r r e n Shxiltis (left) of Sun Oil, president of the Philadelphia chapter of Alpha Chi Sigma, p r e s e n t s citation o£ merit to H u g h W. Field of Atlantic Refining. Occasion was t h e silver anniversary of trie ctiapter celebrated recendy at a dinner. Field was honored for outstanding service to t h e chemical profession.
BIG INCH «"LITTLE INCH Economy because of quality can be yours with POLYKEN Protective Tape Coatings H O W IS THIS POSSIBLE? When you specify highq u a l i t y Poly ken, you automatically specify low-cost application as well as long-range protection. M o r e and more pipeline operators are realizing the unsurpassed qualities of modern polyethylene as a corrosion résister.. . and t h a t the best need cost no m o r e . Factory controlled production from controlled materials—the source of quality — is likewise the source of low-cost field application. By transferring your coating production to our plant, you get: 1. Polyken "Controlled Strength"—careful control in t h e selection and mass processing of r a w materials to assure y on "all wor]k—no waste"; 2. Uniform composition, thickness and adhesion; 3. Application right from the roll—little handling, n o heat, no thinners, no solvents, no drying, no cooling, no clean-up time required; 4, High-speed, low-labor power t a p i n g for "big i n c h " as well a s "little inch" installations; Lowest equipment investment and manpower costs.
We can't figure your costs here in dollars and cents. B u t show us your plans—and we suspect you'll be surprised a t how little this method costs you. Let's talk it over now. Write, wire or phone today. The Kendall Company, Polyken Sales Division, Department CE-D, 222 West Adams Street, Chicago 6, Illinois (Randolph 6-4250). Complete catalog, Sweet's Industrial Construction File, Sec. ^
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Peripatetic Metallurgist ( J NE dark, cold morning in Lux embourg, more than 50 years ago, a small boy was taken from his bed and allowed to light off a new blast furnace with a wad of kerosineimpregnated cotton on the end of a long pole. This boy was William J. KroU, who became one of the world's foremost metallurgists, holder at one time or another of some 40 patents, recipient of the Albert Sauveur Achievement Award of the American Society for Metals ( 1 9 5 5 ) , and many other awards, and developer of the titanium proc ess that bears his name. Born in Luxembourg in 1889, from 1910 to 1917 he studied iron metallurgy at Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg, Germany. Here, too, he^spent World War I, working as an assistant in metal lurgy and on his doctoral thesis on production of pure boron. Since the latter work, Kroll has never strayed far from preparative chem istry. Today he says, "I'm a de railed steel man." At war's end, Kroll went to work at a lead refinery in Germany, where h e developed a calciumbarium-lead alloy used later in large amounts for bearings. T h e process involved injection within a few minutes of u p to 260 pounds of molten sodium into a large lead bath covered with fused chlorides of calcium and barium. In those days sodium was made by fusion electrolysis of the hydroxide a n d sometimes contained a lot of hy dride which, when it contacted t h e lead, gave u p all of its hydrogen. • Life α Series of Explosions. A series of fires and explosions attended Kroll's progress through the metallurgical industry of E u rope. Most of these were due to the pioneering nature of his work and none proved fatal to any one. Kroll cautions, however, that experimental metallurgy is the wrong field for a quiet-loving man. Kroll spent 1920 and 1921 in Hungary at a small, nonferrous metallurgy plant. Once when his boss was out with illness, Kroll was told to run the plant in the interim despite his protestations of lack of experience. One project he took on at that time was a contract to roll zinc sheet which, never having done it before, h e proposed to man age by frequent reference to a text
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200 immigration visas m a d e avail able to Luxembourg by the U. S. This turned out fortuitously, since a subsequent ammunition train ex plosion left a gaping hole at the laboratory site. • Zirconium Resurrected. Upon reaching N e w York safely (his ves sel's sister ship was torpedoed), Kroll went to work for Union Car bide. In 1945, during a discussion on titanium at the Bureau of Mines, h e mentioned that his earlier zir conium work led him to believe he could produce it within about six months, given enough help and equipment. The bureau had a zir conium project under way at its Al bany, Ore., station, which project Kroll took over as a consultant. E i g h t months later, h e and the very able group at Albany rolled their first zirconium strip. Shortly after World W a r II be gan, the Alien Property Custodian seized KrolTs U. S. patent on the titanium process. (At one time Kroll h a d been on a small retainer b y t h e German firm, Siemens & Halske, an arrangement which h e cancelled in 1938 to avoid con tributing to German w a r efforts.) Only recendy, after more than five years of costly wearing litigation, was h e awarded a royalty judg ment. Because of t h e patent's short life—it expires in 1957—Kroll does not expect the royalties t o total much more than his legal a n d titanium research expenditures.
on the subject. Zinc ingots of that era often contained cadmium and lead impurities, a fact overlooked by Kroll's text. H e produced a respectable tonnage of badly cracked zinc sheet. "I had great fun in Hungary," Kroll says, "but at horrible expense to the company!" In 1923, Kroll returned to Lux embourg to set u p his own labo ratory where he was to work for t h e next 17 years. Among his early interests there was beryllium. H e turned to reduction of anhydrous beryllium fluoride by magnesium which, with modifications, is the only process used in the U . S . today. • Epter Titanium. Titanium ap pears first in KrolTs notes for Sep tember 1930 when he tried the H u n t e r process—bomb reduction of titanium tetrachloride with sodium. I n 1937, convinced that titanium b y high-pressure, flash reactions would never become commercial, Kroll first tried reduction of tita nium tetrachloride under argon at atmospheric pressure, using cal cium as the reducing agent and switching later to magnesium. In 1938 he made zirconium in the same way, except that h e separated t h e sponge from the chloride by vacuum distillation. Also in 1938, Kroll came to the U. S. and offered his titanium process to six leading firms in the nonfer rous metals and electrical fields. The reception was something less than enthusiastic and Kroll went home with no takers. In 1939, with Luxembourg in the path of the Blitz krieg, a leading French chemical firm offered to move Kroll into a new laboratory b e hind the Maginot Line. Invasion be came imminent b e fore the arrange ment could be finalized, however, and Kroll left Lux embourg in Febru In his laboratory in Luxembourg in the thirties, ary 1940 with N o . Kroll developed the process now used to make nearly 13 of a block of all the titanium produced in the U. S.
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W. F r a n k l i n Failwell, Jr., n a m e d d i rector of chemical research a n d devel opment a t National Electric P r o d u c t s Corp., Ambridge, Pa. From D e w e y & Aliny Chemical. Charles G. Ferrari, technical direc tor of J. R . Stiort Milling Co., Chicago, elected a vp of trie company. Leonard W . Fish, Walter S. K m a k , and J a m e s E . Reed join staff of Esso Research & Engineering. Richard D . Foggio completes work for a Ph.D. a t t h e University of Vir ginia and is now i n t h e research d e p a r t ment of Colgate-Palmolive Co., Jersey City. Daniel W- Fox joins staff of n e w product development lab, General Elec tric clieriiical and metallurgical division, Pittsfield, Mass. Fred C Foy, president a n d chief executive officer of Koppers Co., to serve as president of newly created Koppers International. George W . Naylor elected v p and general manager of t h e n e w company. Eddie E. Francis joins Carbide & Carbon Chemicals a s a development engineer in process development. Paul K a r l Friedel becomes chemist at T e n c o , Inc., L i n d e n , N. J .
Distiil up to molecular weight 120O with low thermal hazard W i t h this l o w - p r i c e d laboratoiy s t i l l , y o u can simulate on a pilot p l a n t scale the molecular distillation o b t a i n e d in l a r g e and c o s t l y com m e r c i a l stills. O n l y t h e CMS-14, a CVC hi^ghv a c u u m , centrifugal m o l e c u l a r still, gives y o u all t h e s e a d v a n t a g e s : • D i s t i l l s heat-sensitive materials w i t h m o l e c u l a r w e i g h t s u p t o 1200, • H a s less d a n g e r of t h e r m a l decom p o s i t i o n t h a n any o t h e r accepted distillation method. • R a n g e s from one q u a r t to five g a l l o n s in c a p a c i t y . • Produces d i s t i l l a t e a t v a r i a b l e rates u p t o YjA g a l l o n s per h o u r .
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L a r g e numbers of m o l e c u l a r stills are n o w in l a b o r a t o r y a n d p i l o t p l a n t use by p e t r o l e u m refineries and m a n ufacturers of d r u g s , oil-soluble v i t a m i n s , lipid extracts, perfumes, res ins, plasticizers, w a x e s , f a t t y a c i d s , sterols, h o r m o n e s 3 and a m u l t i t u d e of o t h e r products. The CMS-14 still is manufactured by CVC under a licensing a g r e e m e n t w i t h Eastman K o d a k Company. It is a v a i l a b l e o n a royalty-free basis for n o n c o m m e r c i a l purposes. For complete t e c h n i c a l d a t a o n t h e CMS-14 and a smaller CVC still, t h e CMS-5, w r i t e f o r d a t a sheets 3-5-Z1 and 3-10-Zl.
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M i l t o n Gallagher appointed director of research and development for t h e calcium products division of Georgia Marble Co., Tate, G a . D a v i d G. Gamhle elected a member of t h e b o a r d of Procter & G a m b l e . H e replaces his father, Cecil KL Gamble, resigned after 35 years as a P&G director. G e o r g e E . Garland n a m e d manager of recently established petrochemicals sales division of the Texas C o . Neil B . Garlack resigns from EaglePicber t o join scientific section of Na tional P a i n t , Varnish & L a c q u e r Asso ciation, Washington, D . C. Ellis H. Gates joins staff of Man ganese, Inc., Henderson, Nev., as cbief metallurgist. Cecil W- Gayler named m a n a g e r of technical sales service department for Chemstrancl Corp. A l b e r t J. Gerathy joins C a r t e r Prod ucts, Inc., a s director of manufacturing and development. C l a r e W . Gerow completes graduate studies at Iowa State College a n d is now with film department research lab of D u P o n t in Wilmington as a research chemist.
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Carlyle W . Gilbert promoted t o manager of resins and plastics d e p a r t ment of Blaw-Knox Co., chemical plants division. James A. Green joins research a n d engineering department of E t h y l C o r p . as chemical engineer in economics evaluation section, Baton R o u g e . Kenneth E . Grim n a m e d analytical supervisor a t t h e organic chemicals laboratory a t D u Pont's experimental station, Wilmington. David R. Gross n a m e d chief chemist of Miner-Hillard Milling Co., WilkesBarre, P a . From National Fruit Products Co.
Russell C. Hirtle joins sales staff of Indoil Chemical Co. a n d will have headquarters in Boston. Robert S. Holdsworth a d d e d to staff of research division at National Research Corp., Cambridge, Mass. E d w a r d J. Holland appointed manager of export department of American Cyanamid's industrial chemicals division. James F. Hornig joins D u Pout's polychemicals staff as a chemist at the experimental station in Wilmington.
John D. Ireland, chemical engineer, joins aviation and government chemicals division of Olin Mathieson Chemical at Niagara Falls. Larry Jacobson promoted to staff assistant in calcium carbonate sales at Diamond Alkali, Cleveland. Jacob E . Jansen named director of organic chemicals research a t B. F. Goodrich research center, Brecksville, Ohio. William E. Jenkins retires as managing director of Esso Petroleum Co.,
Leslie E. Grosz joins staff of Parke, Davis & Co., Detroit, as a research assistant. J o h n A. Panontin joins as an assistant research chemist. Dorothy M . Gundlach appointed t o newly created position of color consultant o n molding compounds at American Cyanamid's plastics and resins division. Henrv E. Haieler. George D, Kellen 5 Charles'H. McGill, Willard P. R h o d e s , and Eoy A. Wilkins, Jr., join Acrilan technical department of t h e C h e m strand Corp., Decatur, Ala. Arthur H. Hale named assistant to general laboratory director at Du Pont's polychemicals department, Wilmington. Marcus A. Naylor promoted to section m a n a g e r in research division. Mynard Hamming from Phillips Petroleum joins Koppers Co., Verona, Pa. Joseph H a u s joins staff of S. B. Peniek & Co., Jersey City, as chemist in research division. Saul H e r n e r a n d Robert S. Meyer from Atlantic Research Corp. have founded the firm of Herner, Meyer & Co., Washington, D. C , t o conduct services i n the planning of libraries a n d information systems and surveys. Richard Herrlinger n a m e d chemical director of newly established laboratory of Arizona Chemical Co/s process development lab at Panama City, Fla. H a n s Albrecht and Leo Ciesielski. reR. Herrlinger search chemist and chemical engineer respectively, transfer t o P a n a m a City from American Cyan amid labs at Stamford.
CORN for the Pharmaceutical Formulator I N O S I T O L N. F. — A significant Vitamîn-B complex component and lipotropic agent for your ethical formulations. G L U C U R O N O L A C T O N E —A pharmaceutical intermediate that will react with a variety of organic compounds. Three different functional groups make this molecule an important chemical t o investigate. S O D I U M PHYTATE —A neutral salt, particularly useful when a sequestering agent in dry form is desired. W e shall be glad to send you additional dates about any of these products. Write us today» . Medical Education Week — April 22-28, 1956
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Ltd., London. H . C. Tett and R, J . Pinder appointed managing directors. Sidney Kahan leaves Food and Drug Administration to become chief chemist and food technologist of B. Mariischewitz Co., Jersey City. Norman G. Kappler joins Lummos Co. as pulp and paper industries consultant. W. E. Keder receives a Ph.D, in physical chemistry from University of Pittsburgh and has joined staff of Hanford Atomic Products Operation of General Electric in Richland, Wash.
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George E>. Kellen appointed a c h e m ical engineer in quality control a t Chemstrand Corp., Decatur, Ala. Willard P. Rhodes named a chemical engineer in the process assistance section a n d Roy A. AVilkins, Jr., named a c h e m ist in the special analytical group.
Robert D. KLremer transfers from Philadelphia as an industrial coatings salesman for the tar products division of Koppers Co. Joginder Lai appointed to diene synthetic rubbers section of C o o d y e a r Tire & Rubber's research division, Akron.
Daniel L . Kent named a technical service representative in plastic m a t e rials sales department of B. F. Goodrich Chemical.
James E . Lewis completes work for Ph.D. in physical chemistry at P u r d u e and is n o w with Du. Pont a s a senior chemist a t Kinston, 1ST. C.
Louis Koenig resigns a s vice president of Southwest Research Institute a s of June 1.
Tom Lewis n a m e d area supervisor in charge of oxo conversion, oxo hydrogénation, crotonaldehyde, a n d butanol at C a r b i d e & Carbon, Texas City. Carl Leonard named department head over oxo conversion and refining. Ryder Wilde n o w d e p a r t m e n t h e a d over crotonaldehyde, butanol, a n d oxo hydrogénation units.
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D K - 1 strip-chart recording. Uses a conventional stripchart recorder . . . practïcclly any wavelength range may be plotted on arty length of chart. The chart may be expanded, for more detailed analysis . . . or compressed, to show a wide range on a small chart. Reaction rate studies are carried out merely by disconnecting the wavelength drive. *Kit available for conversion o f DfC-2 OK-2 flat-chart recording. Uses a flat Π " χ 17" chart, for easy handling and uniformity. Charts are available with a variety of preprinted wavelength scales, or without wave length calibration. For reaction-rate studies, an additional motor is needed, to drive the recording pen.
E x t r e m e Resolution a n d R e p r o d u c i b i l i t y . . . throughout t h e entire s p e c tral r a n g e . The DK has such e x c e p t i o n a l design a n d construction features t h a t i t s performance is l i m i t e d only by t h e basic physics o f optics, detectors and sources. Double Beam P h o t o m e t r y . . . with single d e t e c t o r . . . a u n i q u e s y s t e m , d e s i g n e d f o r maximum a c c u r a c y , r e p r o d u c i b i l i t y and sensitivity.
Your Local Harsh ay/ Scientific Office v/ill demonstrate these instruments for you and give you complete details. A telephone call or a post card will get prompt attention.
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