ARTIFICIAL RUBBER
NEW USE FOR RUSSIAN
DANDELION
While chemists arc pushing forward with their manufacture of man-made rubber, attention is being given at last to the latex of the Russian dandelion Koksagyz, Avliich lias been used for some time now in the Soviet in place of rubber latex, with a good deal of success. Seeds of this remarkable dandelion have been flown by air to the United States, and will be planted there, and the dandelion cultivated for rubber-making. It will then be possible to make direct comparisons between it and synthetic rubbers now being turned out in thousands of tons. Artificial rubbers have been greatly improved in the last year or two, than'ks to the strenuous research by scientific men in Europe and America. The synthetic rubber known as Ameripol equals natural rubber in six different properties, actually excels it in four properties, and is only slightly inferior in three. It is made from petroleum, soap, natural gas, and air, and the splendid progress achieved with it is of the greatest importance owing to qur loss of Malaya.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 12, 6 October 1942, Page 5
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179ARTIFICIAL RUBBER Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 12, 6 October 1942, Page 5
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