Far from its position in the textile apparel industry Orlon acrylic fiber does a tough job here where it serves as a filter on a giant filter press. Having qualities which can be adapted to rugged industrial assignment as well as high style, Orlon...
From a boiling bath of hot sulfuric acid, a laboratory technician lifts two rods of plastic. One has charred and deteriorated. The other-a rod of DuPont's new Teflon tetrafluoroethylene resin-is not affected at all by the highly corrosive hot acid....
Controlled at this panel is equipment for refining the monomer and producing the polymer from which is made DuPont's unique industrial plastic-Teflon tetrafluoroethylene resin. Able to withstand high temperatures and the most corrosive acids,...
A circular piece of Teflon tetrafluoroethylene resin, a DuPont industrial plastic, placed between tinfoil electrodes, is being measured for its dielectric constant and power factor at 60 to 15,000 cycles. A laboratory technician adjusts the...
From a boiling bath of hot sulfuric acid, a laboratory technician lifts two rods of plastic. One has charred and deteriorated. The other-a rod of DuPont's Teflon tetrafluoroethylene resin-is not affected at all by the highly corrosive hot acid....
This image shows a section of the vat color chemical control laboratory at the dye works. Vat colors are the fastest coloring agent known to modern science and are used on cotton, viscose process rayon and linen. In general, these colors are the...
Nitroglycerin is made in nitrating house by mixing glycerin with nitric and sulfuric acids. This is most critical operation in explosives plant; equipment enables operator to drown an entire charge in water, if necessary.
Acetate, washed free of acids, being loaded for transportation to the dyers preparatory to becoming Acele acetate rayon at the Waynesboro, Virginia plant of E.I du Pont Nemours & Company
Heading of table: "Hydrolysis of Oils and Fats by means of Hydrochloric Acid. Sp: Gr 1-16. 100 grms of Oil or Fat containing free fatty acids and 100 cc of acid; fresh acid used after each sample had been taken."
"Teflon" A Good Electrical Insulator.
Caption text on photo: "A circular piece of 'Teflon' tetrafluoroethylene resin, a DuPont industrial plastic, placed between tinfoil electrodes, is being measured for its dielectric constant and power factor...
Chemically Inert Plastic.
Caption text on photo: "From a boiling bath of hot sulfuric acid, a laboratory technician lifts two rods of plastic. One has charred and deteriorated. The other – a rod of DuPont's 'Teflon' tetrafluoroethylene resin...
Caption text on photo: "Controlled at this panel is equipment for refining the monomer and producing the polymer from which is made DuPont's unique industrial plastic "Teflon" tetrafluoroethylene resin. Able to withstand high temperatures and the...
DuPont Company's Rayon Department acetate textile fibers plant in Waynesboro, Virginia. Text from caption: "Acetate, washed free of acids, being loaded for transportation to the dryers preparatory to becoming 'Acele' acetate rayon at the...
