wo of chemists work in ouï plants T and laboratories. Many have doctor's degrees and look just like the rest of us. You KINDS
can regularly find them at work on our customers' problems. Others are invisible—at least to the unaided eye. These latter are the various bacteria, yeasts, and molds which, no less than human chemists, are capable of manufacturing chemicals. These two kinds of chemists illustrate the two ways in which Commercial Solvents products are made. The human chemists take natural gas, for instance, and by means of heat, pressure and catalysts rearrange its molecules to form formaldehyde, the nitroparaffins and the methanol which, made into antiV O L U M E
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freeze» protects the radiator of your car in winter. The microscopic "chemists" take grain or other carbohydrate materials and by fermentation convert them into alcohol, butanol, acetone, riboflavin and penicillin. These two chemical processes, synthetic and biological, are used by Commercial Solvents to make chemicals. Through its knowledge and skill in both, CSC serves medicine, industry and agriculture.
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