FIRE RISK CUT

Opunake Times, 24 August 1948, Page 3

FIRE RISK CUT

NSW BRJTSSH LUBRICANT AVIATION AND MOTORING After six years’ secret, highly dangerous research, scientists at Birmingham University have perfected a non-inflammable lubricant with many commercial possibilities. Professor Maurice Stacey of Birmingham University is the man who led to success the team of research chemists whose original task was to find a chemically stable substance which could be used in.handling uranium gases. The team not only achieved that purpose but also discovered that this substance has immense potentialities ag a safe lubricant in aviation and motoring The substance itself, fluorine, is not new. It is a green gas twenty times more poisonous than strychnine. It has been known for eighty years, but has never before been “tamed.” Used in aircraft engines the new oil will reduce risk of fire during flight. In a car engine non-in’ flammable lubricant should last for ever without need, for changing. It cannot burn away and it will not wear out. With modifications the new lubricant can be used in plastics, lacquers, and in the linings of chemical apparatus