Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-11
GOLD IN GASOLINE,
CHEM|STSAR TOLD
Auto Held Responsible for
Many New Products Made
From Waste Gases.

BY the Associated Press.
MINNEAPOLIS, September IL
American automobiles were held respon.
sible for host of new products, from
npsticks to grain alcohol, in report
to the American Chemical Society today
The motor cars role is not as a Gre
ator Of demand, but as mother to a vast
quantity OF useful chemicals that have
come into existance recently from new
processes of making gasoline.
In the formerly waste gases from
gasoline cracking, said Gustav Egloff OF
the Universal Oil Products Co. of Chi
chago, chemists have found potential
gold mine of articles that bear little re-
semblance to gas or gasoline.
Vast Alcohol Resource.
There are cosmetics and pharma-
ceuticals, lamp black and hydrogen,
some of them already on the market
There Is enough leftover material to
make, he said, 800 10000 gallons yearly
Of grain alcohol thre times the amount
consumed commercially in the United
States. Ethylene, just one of the left
over gasoline products, already is made
into anesthetics, used to ripen fruit
and vegetables and to prepare war
gases. Chemists are beginning to get a
little "butadiene," which resembles rub
Der and can be manufactured into rub
ber-like substances
Many fuel gas users are getting a bet
ter grade. made so by mixing with some
OF the former waste from cracked gaso-
line.
The idea of attempting to convert
flames directly into electricity was pro-
posed by Dr. F. B. Jones of the EQui-
table Gas Co. of Pittsburgh. He said
little is known of the action of atomic
forces in burning gas and that study
OF this action offers immense posi-
hilities'
Use For Stale Bread.
Predictions that stale bread will some
day come back to the house in a chang
ed guise was made by C. G. Harrel of
the Commander Larabee Corporation of
Minneapolis.
yearly" he said, Hundreds OF
thousands of tons of dry or stale bread
are burned in furnaces or bound to city
dumps. This bread can be transformed
into alcohol, pastes, etc. 1t is to be
distinctly understood that this is not
being done. The bakers have been in
fear OF public opinion. Economic neces-
sity will no doubt open this field to the
chemist and the bakery will then keep
pace with many other industries
A step toward easier control of flavor
and baking quality of bread was report
ed by M. j. Blish and R. M. Sandstedt
OF the Agricultural Experiment Station,
University of Nebraska. The substance
with which they expect to accomplish
This is protein of wheat, glutenin,
which they have isolated in a more pure
form than heretofore obtainable.
The splitting of supposedly indi-
visible element. hydrogen gas, in two
substances was also demonstrated to
the society.
1t was called the greatest scientific
discovery OF 1929" by DR.. Hugh S. Tay-
of the session.
Discovered by a German.
DR.. K. F. Bohnhoeffer, a shy, blonde.
young German, who was a 17-year-old
infantryman in front-line trenches at
the close OF the World War, is the dis
coverer.
Dramatically he set his proof before
the eyes of the chemists in a spot of
light upon the wall of University of
Minnesota lecture room. Like a NOV
ing finger it wrote the forecast of a
revolution in physical chemistry. This
revolution was described enthusiastic
cally by DR.. Taylor. an older man.
ut is the first tangible proof of ex-
istence in supposedly indivisible mole
cules of what we may call a different
kind Of molecule," he said. ct opens
up the way to finding an entire new
species Of molecule. 1t is the first proof
Of something forecast mathematically
by the new wave mechanics. 1t means
that our text books on physical chemis-
try will have to be rewritten"
DR.. Bohnhoeffer passed some ordi-
nary hydrogen gas over charcoal chilled
to the intense cold of liquid air. This
process converted 1t into the new form
which he called parahydrogen.
Light Changes Position.
He pumped this parahydrogen over a
hot wire where it interfered with the
flow of heat through the wire. This
heat flow was indicated by spot of
light on the wall. Next he converted