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Commercial Chemicals

Companies added these products to their lines during the past four weeks

Material

Gibberellic acids (crystalline form)

Decaborane

Vitamin B 1 2 preparation (VitaBusch 12)

Pyrrolidine, technical grade, minimum purity 95%

Ammonium nitrite solution (18%) , nickel ethyl sulfate, potassium methyl sulfate, sodium ethyl sulfate, barium ethyl sulfate, thalium per-chlorate, and cobaltous oxide

Organic compounds: 3-( bromomethyl )-heptane, p-bromophenyl phenyl ether; 2-buten-l-ol; l-(p-chloro-phenyl ) -3-hydroxy-3 - phenyltriazine; 1, l-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazine; 2-ethyl-ZV,N-dimethylhexylamine 5 ethyl isocyanate; ethyl methyl 3-methyl-glutaconate ; 2 - f uranm eth anethiol ; DL-methoxyphenylacetic acid; N-methyl-n-butylamine; 2,2'-( nitroso-imino ) diethanol; p-toluenesulfinic acid sodium salt

Dicyclopentadiene

Sesquiterpenes ( principally )3-caryo-phyllene), three grades

Polonium-beryllium neutron sources I

Levulinic acid

Titanium trichloride

Krypton-85

Caustic soda, anhydrous (Flo-chilled)

Polymerized ethyl silicate

Primary amines, acetoacetarylamides, nitro compounds, arylamides of cy­clic acids, chlorinated compounds, carboxylic acids ( including esters and acid chlorides), alkoxy com­pounds, pyrazolones, sulfonic acids (and salts), sulfonamides, hydroxy compounds

Ammonium nitrate (pebbled)

Available in commercial quantities unless otherwise

Company

Abbott Laboratories North Chicago, 111. American Potash & Chemical Henderson, Nev. Anheuser-Busch St. Louis, Mo. Ansul Chemical Marinette, Wis. City Chemical New York, Ν. Υ.

Eastman Kodak, Distillation Products, Industries Division Rochester, Ν. Υ.

En jay Chemical New York, Ν. Υ. Glidden, Southern Chemical Division, Cleveland, Ohio Isotopes Specialties Burbank, Calif. Quaker Oats Omaha, Neb. Staufler Chemical New York, Ν. Υ. Technical Operations Burlington, Mass. Wyandotte Chemicals Wyandotte, Mich. Monsanto Chemical Everett, Mass. Pfister Chemicals Ridgefield, N. J.

Suggested Uses Include

Growth promoters

Limited quantities for investigational purposes For food and pharmaceutical industries

For use in rubber accelerators, insecti­cides, pharmaceuticals Experimental quantities

Drum or tankcar lots

Manufacture of aromatics and fine chemicals Outputs of up to 10 s neutrons per second

Chemical intermediate. In pilot plant quantities Semicommercial quantities ranging up to hundreds of pounds

For use in thickness gaging

Free-flowing grade

Investment casting

Organic intermediates

Allied Chemical and Dye Hopewell, Va.

noted

Fertilizer

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