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new wood alcohol furnished by war industries is not the same. Conference with [[red underline]] White [[/red underline]] manager of Perth Amboy Chemical Co as to tests, impurities and analysis of formaldehyde [[red underline]] Amount of aciditity etc. [[red underline]] Possibility of synthetic phenol containing disturbing impurities or reaching further etc.
Experiments so as to have answer to these questions immediately instituted. I stay there all day not even leaving for lunch.
Feb 12. Again at factory at 10.A.M. Shannon here General conference Rossi Byck Shannon Gothelf and myself in which I explain the whole situation and possibilities. Thurlow
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joins also. He thinks it is all due to defective annealing and shows some samples of the defective material which he has cured by submitting to additional annealing operation. But Rossi objects to accepting his results until time has elapsed to determine whether samples do not in turn become brittle. Rossi says that some of his material was all right at first then turned brittle after a few days. Furthermore this extreme brittleness must have a cause, either in the chemical composition of the raw materials or in a difference in manufacture We conclude to try everyone of these lines of action Called in [[red underline]] Hamlin [[/red underline]]from Bloomfield so that he may