TRANSPARENT PLASTIC
Substitute For Glass ?
(Special Crspdt. N.Z.P.A.) LONDON, Jan. 28.
A new material has been discovered accidentally by scientists in Haifa working for the Weizmann Institute on a research project on the use of acrytonltril, according to the “Daily Telegraph’s” Haifa correspondent.
The material is a transparent plastjc and is considered to have immense possibilities as a replacement for conventional glass. Negotiations are now going on with a United States concern over the development and production of the new plastic. It is regarded as being safer and stronger than ordinary glass.
I see it is impossible for the king to have things done as cheap as other men.— Samuel Pepys.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30043, 30 January 1963, Page 16
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