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test your Polyol LQ. How well do you know your Polyols? Here are questions about a few of the hundreds of Polyols that Dow makes. Some of them are common as can be, some not so common, others you may not have heard of. How many can you name? TIME ALLOWED: 4 MINUTES, READY . . . GO!
1. What two Polyols are good tobacco humectants we are serious when we "put them in your pipe smoke it"?
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2. What Polyol, due to excel lent aqueous antifreeze proper ties and low toxicity, can be used in refrigeration systems whose coils are in direct contact with food?
4. What Polyol is so versatile that it is used to release auto mobile tires from their manu facturing molds, is a major con stituent of automobile brake fluids, and in case you have a convertible, will not only lower the top, but will also keep your hair well-groomed as you breeze along with the breeze?
6 . What group of Polyols is finding wide acceptance in t h e cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries and is used as a car rier? Also used to replace ixatural gums? H»
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Ύ. What one Polyol is so ver satile that it finds extensive usage in the manufacture of synthetic fibers, dynamite, alkyd resins and antifreeze?
3 . What Polyol made both 5. What well-known Polyol, 8· What versatile Polyol—a synthetically and naturally is due to its low price and excel surfactant intermediate, plastiviscous, sweet, and is widely lent color characteristics, is cizer, urethane cross-linking used in cosmetics, pharmaceu used most extensively in the agent—owes its exceptional use polyester field? fulness to its eight OH groups? ticals and tobacco? KNOW YOUR POLYOLS—A score of 4 out of 8 gives you a passing mark; 5 out of 8 puts you in the top half of the class; 6 out of 8 makes you a real promising Polyoler; 7 out of 8, you're a genius second-class, and 8 out of 8 makes you a Professor of Polyolotry (entitles you to a free, illuminated certificate, testifying to your Polyol prowess). We hope this quiz whets your appetite to know more about Polyols. Many brochures, technical papers and bulletins, including Dow's new folder, "World's Widest Line of Polyols", are available from your nearest Dow sales office. Or, write to THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY, Midland, Michigan, Department GO 949B.
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