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Again Plastics Take a Front Seat!
- 1945
…visible on the car upholstery. The accompanying text promotes the use of Saran plastics in textiles, noting that Saran fabrics are durable and easy to clean. Initially developed for the U.S. Army to wrap arms and equipment for transport during World War II, Saran plastic …various consumer applications, including packaging, plastic sheeting, and Saran Wrap. …
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Chemical industry, Advertising, Plastics, Plastics industry and trade, Textile fabrics, Women in advertising
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The Plastic Fabric for "Coverage" Against Accidents
- Circa 1946
…Color print advertisement for Saran fabric, made from Saran textile monofilaments. The advertisement features … U.S. Army to wrap arms and equipment for transport during World War II, saran plastic …various consumer applications, including packaging, plastic sheeting, and Saran Wrap.…
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Distillations, Volume 1 Number 2
- 2015 (Summer)
… …Big family, no maid, tight budget! (So they use SARAN WRAP and plenty of it!) The advent of lifestyle branding fueled new … products with a particular way of life. This 1957 advertisement for Saran Wrap is a prime example of the trend, highlighting how Saran allows…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 28 Number 2
- 2010 (Summer)
…Company's first ventures into the consumer products industry was with Saran Wrap, a clear, transparent, and flexible film suited for a variety …Manufactured from the by-products of the petroleum and brine industries, Saran Wrap is formed using the blown film extrusion process seen here.-PS…
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Oral history interview with James C. A. Bardwell
- 2004-Apr-05 – 2004-Apr-06
…microfiber. My engineer friend tells me that just to engineer a roll of Saran Wrap requires solving approximately 100,000 differential equations. … if you’re going to take a lump of plastic and try to make a roll of Saran Wrap out of it manually, there’s no way. You could pound it. You could … it would be nice, I guess, to be able to figure out the formula for Saran Wrap or to solve all these equations, but it doesn’t get to the question…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 25 Number 2
- 2007 (Summer)
…growth, introducing many useful chemicals and such household products as Saran Wrap and Ziploc bags. In 1965, when Brandt was named director of public…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 14 Number 2
- 1997 (Summer)
…apo ep ie ee is ES ts a) ¢ ag new wells if necessary, and devel- ing Saran Wrap, Dow’s famous od-wrapping material. When cash at the firm was …
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Smithsonian MicroChemistry XM Manual
- Circa 1996
…BE SURE TO WEAR GOGGLES WHEN DOING EXPERIMENTS IN THIS CHEMISTRY SET! Wrap an ice cube in several layers of newspaper. Crush the cube with a hammer …Solution of table salt from SECTION 1 LJ Magnifying glass (J Plastic wrap () Microplate (} Tweezers L) Goggles BE SURE TO WEAR GOGGLES WHEN DOING …10 - SOLUTIONS SECTION) Q) Q) O 9-volt battery Plastic scoop Plastic wrap (Saran® wrap or other plastic wrap) Transparent cellophane tape Fine…
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Oral history interview with Louis C. Rubens
- 1986-Aug-19
…that took most of my time dealt with the light and heat stability of Saran—which we called at that time “Ventyloid.” Ralph Wiley had been working on Saran. Light and heat stability were already identified as the key problems …had a revolving orifice and he’d take a strand of the hot polymer and wrap it around and he was coating it with polyester butylene as a lubricant…
- Interviewee Rubens, Louis C., 1919-2013
- Interviewer Bohning, James J.
- Subject Polymers, Dow Chemical Company, Chemists, Rubens, Louis C., 1919-2013, Chemists--Biography
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Oral history interview with Richard H. Scheller
- 1989-Dec-14
… in Tokyo—and had just done a postdoc in Canada with a person named [Saran A.] Narang, who was a former student of [Har Gobind] Khorana at MIT …where they have an, what’s called an electric organ, which they will wrap around their prey and stun them with an electric discharge. This is …Wisconsin, 1, 2 MIT. See Massachusetts Institute of Technology N Narang, Saran A., 6 New York City, New York, 18 P Paris, France, 16 R Riggs,…
- Interviewee Scheller, Richard H.
- Interviewer Kohler, Robert, Morrissette, Naomi
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Scheller, Richard H., Medical scientists, Molecular biology, Medicine--Research, Recombinant DNA, Aplysia, Neurosciences, Molecular neurobiology
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Oral history interview with Malcolm E. Pruitt
- 1986-Jan-15
… of work on vinyl chloride-vinylidene chloride copolymerizations for Saran. Bobby Wall felt he had a better idea on how to do that. I was helping …caustic or KOH and as well as other catalysts. Then I would seal them up, wrap them up in a cloth towel, put them in those ovens and see if they would …Rubber, 18 R&D [research and development], 27, 31, 32, 39, 40 S Saran, 10 Science teacher, period as, 5 Scroggins, --, 2 Shelf dryer, …
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 22 Number 1
- 2004 (Spring)
…synthesize strych- nine. Dow introduces poly(vinyli- dene chloride), a.k.a. Saran, as a food wrap. 23 February The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk…
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Chemistry, Theoretical, Practical, and Analytical, as Applied and Relating to the Arts and Manufactures, Vol. 2
- 1860
…best kept warm in highly polished vessels, and that it is an error to wrap them round with cloths or other coverings, which radiate the heat more …following simple char- acter :— Ag 0, NO; + Cl give AgCl + 0 + NO; SN Saran aL | Nitrate of silver. Chlorine. Chloride of silver. Oxygen. Nitric…
- Author Muspratt, Sheridan, 1821-1871
- Contributor Horsford, Eben Norton, 1818-1893
- Publisher Mackenzie, William
- Engraver Cook, Conrad
- Subject Chemistry, Technical, Chemistry--Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Science--Encyclopedias, Science--Study and teaching, Science--Terminology