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of glass by Jap. Navy.
Instead of making them transparent A in nickel-kettles as we do. they have a row of 2 liter glass flasks and ditto reflux condenser, all heated on a row of water baths or directly heated gas burners. lined along the wall, somewhat in same way as Kjeldal determination batteries are installed in laboratories.
The [[underline]] rods are cast in glass tubes. [[/underline]]
They made some attempts at making bakelite hollow tubes but no good success. [[underline]] Do no know our lead molding [[/underline]] methods. [[underline]] Glass plates are [[/underline]] made between [[underline]] nickel plated [[/underline]] [[strikethrough]] partion [[/strikethrough]] [[underline]] partitions [[/underline]] screwed together. All bakelizing
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is done in a [[underline]] heavy upright bakelizer [[/underline]] about 6 feet diameter with heavy cast iron lid on top and about 4 feet (I am not sure) deep. Use air. no carbonic acid. [[underline]] Told them about CO2 and use of oil. [[/underline]]
[[underline]] Yamamoto [[/underline]] their chemical Engineer is a graduate of the [[underline]] University of Tokio [[/underline]] and seems very competent. Does not speak English. Tells me that he tries to eliminate excess phenol by washing so as to obtain lens darkening but has not succeeded.
They sell 50000 yen of [[underline]] Dilecto [[/underline]] a year. [[strikethrough]] Tana [[/strikethrough]] [[underline]] Trakata Co [[/underline]] (just in bankrupcy) [[underline]] imports Westinghouse Micartha [[/underline]] in competition They [[underline]] import formaldehyde from U.S. and Phenol and Cresol from England. [[/underline]] They had a small