A SUBSTITUTE FOR RUBBER.
Professor 'Oscrcaii'is.'iensiky, of Moscow Univcreiiy, has solved the prtob,leiiM, long pending, of the production on. a commercial basis of artificial ,ru<b•ber by chemical synthesis, says the St. Peteojsibiurg correspondent of the Lonclon Standard. H'e ha.s. sold his secret t& a syndicate elf capitalists, who are, now erecting an experimental factory. The method, it is said, prodaic.es the purest ruMrcir at a nominal oost ifiitim materials native to .'Piiuggia. Hiith&rto (heat has 1 been- used ito produce the necesarsy chemical changes, btft Professor Os.ti'omislensJky employs sultra-rio'dt rays from a qu'artz lamp'. This product is claimed to (have «•!! the qualities of best (rubber, 'but is itco pure for ordinary commercial uses ,requiring aduilteraitfon before use. Hard fine Para ru'biber now fetches 4& 7jd -par lb. The new substitute is to cost about Is 3\d per l'b.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10634, 13 May 1912, Page 4
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138A SUBSTITUTE FOR RUBBER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10634, 13 May 1912, Page 4
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