Abstract
A RECENT announcement by the Calico Printers' Association, Ltd., and Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., relates to a new fibre-forming polymer derived from terephthalic acid and ethylene glycol, to which the name ‘Terylene’ has been provisionally assigned.
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See Part 1 of the collected papers of W. H. Carothers, in Vol. 1 of "High Polymers" (Interscience Publishers, Inc., New York, 1940).
For a more detailed discussion of this question see Whinfield, Chem. and Ind., 62, 354 (1943).
J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 31, 1919 (1909).
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WHINFIELD, J. Chemistry of ‘Terylene’. Nature 158, 930–931 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158930a0
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