ARTIFICIAL RUBBER.
A Londoni cab,e states 'chat a Synthetic Rubber Company *s being formed, ; \v:>h a capital :of £50'!),000. The Company, however, is being oriiiiciseu by various newspapers. Last month- a ui-bilei mescage from London .stated i.hat "Br W. H.'r'ei'kin, Professor of Chemistry at Victoria University, ■Manchester, has a!nii6uno:d the disunity of a- meiviLs of producing synthetic' rubber on a commercial scale, ■do stays it can be aminufactured at '■a. cost of half a crown, a pou'nd, which 'may 'be reduced '.to. ia shilling. The process l , briefly, is thiis: Fusel oil £s produced fro mine starch in maize, ■a.ud .the:*.' converted inito is-oprene, Whence the rubber .is extracted by 'being ibrcught into contact with sodium."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10678, 5 July 1912, Page 4
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116ARTIFICIAL RUBBER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10678, 5 July 1912, Page 4
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