The Chemistry and Technology of Rubber Latex

Abstract

THE fund of information concerning rubber latex has attained its present proportions by contributions from two widely separated sources. For many years, excellent work has been in progress in the rubber-producing countries of the East on the physiology and general properties of latex, chiefly with a view to its use as a source of first-grade dry rubber of uniform quality.,More recently, latex has become available in quantity in the industrial countries of the world, and this has led to intense and detailed study, particularly in Great Britain and the United States, of the problems associated with its use as latex in industrial processes. It follows that few men of unquestioned scientific attainments have had working experience in both fields of investigation. Dr. Falconer Flint is one of these few. After service in the East as a scientific officer on the staff of the Rubber Research Institute of Malaya, he is now working in Great Britain for Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., on problems associated with the applications of latex as such. It will be with keen anticipation, therefore, that the reader will take up this book. He will be hard to please who is disappointed. Although the author's original intention was to translate the treatise prepared in 1934 by Georges Genin, he has in reality so amplified and extended it as to constitute the volume under review practically a new work. He presents an orderly, thoughtful, and balanced analysis of the literature, including patent specifications.

The Chemistry and Technology of Rubber Latex

The Chemistry and Technology of Rubber Latex. By Dr. C. Falconer Flint. Based on Georges Génin's "Chimie et technologie du latex de caoutchouc". Pp. xx + 715 + 40 plates. (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1938.) 42s. net.