RUBBER RESEARCH

Special producer limits and related controls are also imposed by the Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia (RRIM) to provide an additional safeguard. 

A. Subramaniam, Technology Bulletin No. 4, Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia, 1980. 

J. B. Gomez, Physiology ofEatex (Bubber) Production, MRRDB Monograph No. 8., Malaysian Rubber Research Development Board, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1983. 

Rubber Research Institute of Malaya, Planters Bull 32, 83 (1957). 

J. Smith, Rubber Research Association, Welyn, England, private communication (1958). 

Rubber Research Institute of India, Kerala, India... 

Recent Developments in Rubber Research Using Atomic Force Microscopy... 

Providing the first comprehensive overview of rubber research activities from around the world. Current Topics in Elastomers Research—... 

This time, Midgley was doing the kind of basic chemical research for rubber that had not been done for tetraethyl lead or CFCs. He discovered the distinction between two rubber components and laid the foundation for wartime synthetic rubber research. Most of his 15 rubber papers were published in scientific journals of the American Chemical Society. Midgley was proud of the work given a major award for tetraethyl lead and CFCs, he talked only about rubber. In their interests, Midgley and Kettering had grown far apart. 

Robert E. Wilson (Pan American Petroleum and Transport Company, NY). The Medalist. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. 29 (Feb. 1937) 239-241. Source for James Watt Cornell academics smoking car and rubber research. 

Peter J. T. Morris. The American Synthetic Rubber Research Program. Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. Source for synthetic rubber needed German substitutes neoprene properties and marketing. 

STEVENS URETHANE UK,DEPT.OF TRADE IND. UK,LABORATORY OF THE GOVERNMENT CHEMIST SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ON TOXICITY,ECOTOXICITY ENVIRONMENT AMERICAN COUNCIL ON SCIENCE HEALTH EUROPEAN COMMISSION TNO PLASTICS RUBBER RESEARCH INSTITUTE DENMARK EU EUROPEAN COMMUNITY EUROPEAN UNION FRANCE NETHERLANDS SCANDINAVIA UK USA WESTERN EUROPE WESTERN EUROPE-GENERAL... 

In Malaya the Rubber Research Institute is continually studying new and old fungicidal treatments. These are gazetted and, if they have passed tests, they are included in an approved list, which gives the range of concentrations that will properly inhibit the disease and still not be too toxic for treating the newly cut bark tissues. The materials are applied by spraying a narrow band on the trunk, on each... 

Hevea rubber is undoubtedly one of the unique crops of history and of all agriculture, and one of the most interesting. It is not easy to produce rubber. Research is the tool by which it is possible to grow vast acreages of the tree as a profitable crop. This could never have been done without the past /and present intensive investigations of careful scientists over more than 30 years. Repeated reference in the literature indicates that diseases are the limiting factors in natural rubber production, and that planters owe a debt to disease-control workers. 

Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, and its successors. Special mention should be made of Theodore J. Grant and E. P. Imle, who, as directors of the regional rubber research station in Turrialba, have had much to do with the success of re-establishing rubber as a crop in the Western Hemisphere, and J. B. Carpenter, recently rubber pathologist at that station. Library facilities and reports of experimental work of the station were freely opened at all times. 

In 1838 Macintosh and Hancock at Goodyear discovered how to take tacky naturai rubber from rubber trees and react it with suifur in the presence of heat to vuicanize the rubber to a nonstick compound that couid be usefui for items such as boots, rain coats, and tires. Synthetic rubber research started between Worid Wars I and II and progressed very quickly after World War II. The modern birth of soiid synthetic poiymers for commerciai products may be traced to Hyatt in 1868. He discovered how to react cellulose nitrate and camphor to produce a hard piastic that was used to fabricate billiard balls because ivory had become scarce. 

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