Creative Chemistry; Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries
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Several carbide factories were devoted to it. But the intermediate and by- products of the process, such as alcohol, acetic acid and acetone, were in as much demand for war pur- poses as rubber. The Germans made some rubber from pitch imported from Sweden. They also found a useful substitute in aluminum naphthenate made from Baku petroleum, for it is elastic and plastic and can be vulcanized. So although rubber can be made in many different THE EACE FOE EUBBEB 155 ways it is not profitable to m...ake it in any of them. We have to rely still upon the natural product, but we can greatly improve upon the way nature produces it. When the call came for more rubber for the electrical and automobile industries the first attempt to increase the supply was to put pressure upon the natives to bring in more of the latex. As a consequence the trees were bled to death and sometimes also the natives. The Belgian atrocities in the Congo shocked the civi- lized world and at Putumayo on the upper Amazon the same cause produced the same horrible effects.
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