ARTIFICIAL RUBBER.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 85, 10 April 1912, Page 3

ARTIFICIAL RUBBER.

RUSSIAN CHEMIST'S Cli^M. According to all accounts, Jd. OsU-oinli*-lensky, a youug and diitinguishwU professor ot chemistry at tho Imperial Tccnnic&l School ot Moscov, has Solved tho problem of making urfcilicial rubber (sstatos «i recent Si. Petersburg despatch). ,Wh«u studying the properties of I3eji2<?i 'Utyound it. substance tho btrucluro ot vliich-tlo&uly resembled rubber," "Aii** \iictiinfc "utf&ft that; discovery lift has nyntheti&ul:?; .>produced what is fcaid 1o bu a perfect J"bubiftitiit«» for natural rubber. >■„ * t » 1 Ultra-violet rays play a ' cpnsulfcrabU pai l^ in tho procebs. The dWtiolty arid resilience ,o£ (,hu now Bubstiuioe ara dehcribod as equal to rubber, and tho price is 23 roubles (2s tlio rouble) a pood (56.11311.) ■ „ Tho discovery has caused c, groat 1 nensation in tho rubber industry. TluS.'RusMau,nnd foreign rights have beCH ae< quired by Count Tatiitcheff;' huad 6t tho United Bank, and of the fapgatir "Rubber Company. Commenting on the abovo messasro, tho Pall Mall G&Kottß say*: 1 »L, "The 'price' of 25 roubles p«r>l>oo<l works out. lit 1r sid per lb, but tho '!<antor criblcgrani is a httlo vnjftto. 'If, a* is quite possible, tho 25 roubles nor'Jpood meat's tho cost ol production, M. OsU-o niislcnsky ha*> accomplished r.othiugtvery wonderful commercially, Booing that tho best Malay plantation compamo»oaA"mtu" • Icefc their rubber at from Is to S& ppf lb. If tho «Utemetifc meaus that the iiptf substance is being sold at Is sid per ib, *o caai only say that tlm invented must ba nblo to prodoco ufc iui ( almost, incredibly cheap flgiu'o U> tnuko il, worth hic^vbile U) <hrpogi> of tho new subfilanoo ot tho juice, of this most inferior grade* oi' r ruboat. llcal line Para—the rttmdai'd' rubber—i<* qiio<«d iv LhndoA af> te 7i<l i.tnlb,'and the beHt plantation w;w eokTui*- . the last fortnightly auctions at 5s 43 \\r r lb. Thero have been. m> many fufcile sit tempts in recent years to produce a >aii---factory rubber synthetically that rubber oxpwrte libvo becomo very fecaplica). Bui, further information iiri-ogavd to M. Ottrpmislonsky s dWcovary will bo aSVaitcd with ■ interest, nevertheless."

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