Corncobs to Yield Munitions at "New Synthetics" Plant

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As a result of six years of research in his laboratory, Francis E. Wilkinson of Glendale, Calif, has devised a process that converts Corncobs into munitions. A plant being erected near Missouri Valley, Ia., is expected to turn 40 tons of corncobs a day into nitro-cellulose, a base for explosives, and into a synthetic rubber which can be fused with natural rubber in making tires. Eventually, Mr. Wilkinson hopes, his company will use annually for defense products, 26,000,000 bushels of cobs which otherwise would be burned as waste. Other products which are said to be obtainable from cobs are guncotton, alcohol, motor fuel, plastics and rayon.

Title (Dublin Core): Corncobs to Yield Munitions at "New Synthetics" Plant
Subject (Dublin Core): en Technology; en Explosives and land mines
Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core): Corncobs to Yield Munitions at "New Synthetics" Plant
Language (Dublin Core): eng
Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core): World War II
Date Issued (Dublin Core): 1941-11
Is Part Of (Dublin Core): Popular Mechanics, v. 76, n. 5, 1941
pages (Bibliographic Ontology): 91
Rights (Dublin Core): Public Domain (Google digitized)
Source (Dublin Core): Google books
References (Dublin Core): Glendale; California; Missouri Valley
Archived by (Dublin Core): Enrico Saonara; Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core): United States of America

Item sets: Wars of Wonders; checked

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