Dr. Gustav Egloff, ace researcher of Chicago's Universal Oil Products Co., last week revealed that he had devised a new way to make synthetic rubber from butane gas. Butane, used for heating, welding, motor fuel, is extremely plentiful and cheap. It is present in natural gas, is also a by-product in oil refining. Dr. Egloff estimates that from these sources 15 billion pounds of U. S. butane are available every year.
The butane molecule contains four atoms of carbon, ten of hydrogen. In the Egloff process, two atoms of hydrogen are first ripped out of the butane molecule at a temperature of...
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