NRA Relocates in New Executive Offices

The National Renderers Assoc. has relocated its executive offices at 3150 Des Plaines Ave., Des Plaines, Ill., according to an announcement by Ex- ecutive 1)irector Dean Specht, afford- ing more room for expanded activities.

Society of Cosmetic Chemists Convene December 2, in New York City

The Society of Cosmetic Chemists' will hold its annual scientific meeting and Medal Award Dimmr, Dee. 2, 1964, at the Biltmore Hotel, New York, N.Y. They have ammunced the selection of H. D. Goulden as this year's medalist.

�9 Ne,v Products HENRr TRO~:MNER, IXC., Philadelphia, Pa., announces a compsct nlagne[ic stirrer, reportedly at half the price of comparable equipment. In kit form ; assembly is easy from par:s supplie:l with instructions.

KROUGH PUMP Co., Sail Francisco, Calif., now has a eomplete line of Alloy End Suction Centrifugal Pumps, ranging from one to eight inches, in all metals including exotic. Also avail- able: three new accessories for use with the Aminco Fluoro-Micropho- tometer.

BECKMAN SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS DIV.~ Fullerton, Calif., has introduced the DU-2 Ultraviolet Spectrophotom- eter, a single-beam instrument with a wavelength range from 193-1000 m/,.

CONTROLLED ATMOSPHEREt INC. , Orange, Calif., announces a 2-side double window High Vacuum Dry Box, designed for two operators to pe;i 'orm welding operations on exotic oxygen sensitive materials, work in an u!t~'a- pure parts/nfillion inert atmosphere or work with hazardous chemica:s.

~/IACROSONICS CORP., Carteret, N.J., an- nounces an advanced high fre(luency ultrasonic laboratory tool (800 KCPS Multisons Generator) designed to pro- vide the answer to processing prob- lenls in production and research h!~.

SADLER RESEARCH LABORATORIES, Phil- adelphia, Pa., is offering a comp:e~e gas chromatographic analytical serv- me. They arc also compiling chromato- graphic retention data on a series o[' standard chromatograms of many con> pounds in their IR spectra series.

LKB INSTRUMENTS, INC., Washing- ton, D.C., has introduced a new type of column apparatus, intended for fractionating complex solutions of sub- stances by gel filtrations for analyt- ical and preparat ive separations.

ISA Short Course on Gas Chromatography in Pittsburgh This Month

A one-week short course on Gas Chromatography, sponsored by ISA Analysis Instrumentation Division, will be held at Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa., Nov. 30- Dec. 4, 1964.

Planned specifically for practicing ehroInatographers, this course is the first of four bimmial research sym- posia.

For further details, contact the ISA GC Course Coordilmtor: Prof. C. J. Borchers, Graduate Insti tute of Tech- nology, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Ark.

SLA Translation Center Reaches New High

Special Libraries Assoc., New York, has announced that their Translation Center now has almost 100,000 scien- tific and teehnical translations on de- pos i t - -p lus information on the avail- ability of many more. In the national interest of avoiding expensive dupli- cation, the Center encourages ever wider use of its materials so that more funds will be free for translating mate- rial not already available in English.

When you need a translation, call 312-225-2520 or TWX 312-431-1758; give ~ complete bibliographic citation of the original paper, and the staff will cheek to determine if and where a translation is available.

I f you have translations not yet deposited, please send them to: SLA Trsnslation Center, The John Crerar Library, 35 West 33rd St., Chicago, Ill.

�9 I c/ustry Items 17NION CARBIDE CORP., Olefins I)iv., New York, N.Y., announees that their normal paraffins plant, brought on s~ream earlier this year at Texas City, is already slated for expansion. I t produces the basic raw material for soft or biodegradable detergents as well as other products.

E. H. SAtmENT a CO., Chicago, Ill., has purchased the Laboratory Supply Div. of Mine & Smelter Supply Co., I)enver. This will provide for broader distribution in the Rocky Mountain area, with M & S plants in E1 Paso, Albuquerque and Salt Lake City.

�9 Obituary W. F. Douglass (1941), Director of

Laboratory, Cndahy Packing Co., Omaha, Neb., died September 9, 1964 in the Methodist Hospital in that city.

@ Two new editions of important books for the oil chemist. Ex- amine them now, on approval. i H

Bailey's I N D U S T R I A L O I L A N D F A T P R O D U C T S , Th i rd Edition.

E d i t e d by I)ANIEL SWERN. The ma- t e r i a l ill th is t h i r d edi t ion of t i le elassic work has been c r i t i c a l l y se- lected and t h o r o u g h l y u p d a t e d . F o u r m a j o r a reas have u n d e r g o n e extens ive change since p u b l i c a t i o n of the second edi t ion, so t hey have been l a r g e l y r ewr i t t en . They a r c : 1) the s t r u c t u r e a n d composi t ion of fa t s and oils, wi th spec ia l emphas i s on the la tes t d a t a on cha rac t e r i s t i c s of i n d i v i d u a l fa t s and oils ; 2) sur- face-ac t ive a ge n t s ; 3) e x t r ac t i on of fa t s and oi ls ; and 4) h y d r o g e n a - t ion.

The book is now d i v i d e d into two m a j o r sections. The first is on the chemis t ry and chemical uses of fa t s and oils, and the second on un i t processes in oil a n d f a t tech- nology.

The r e a d e r is g iven a f u n d a - men ta l b a c k g r o u n d in the spec ia l chemis t ry , how fa t s a re used, a n d finally, how process ing t echn iques are used to p rov ide fa t s and oils in an a p p r o p r i a t e condi t ion for the uses descr ibed. Methods of eva lua- t ion are given, especia l ly those re- l a t i n g to i n d u s t r i a l uses.

The la tes t a n a l y t i c a l f igures for the composi t ion of f a t s and oils a re inc luded , wi th p a r t i c u l a r em- phas i s on minor components . This is an In t e r sc i ence book. 1964. 1103 pages. $25.00.

O R G A N I C C O A T I N G T E C H N O L - OGY, Vol . 1, Second Edition.

l{y HENRY F. PAYNE. A compact t r e a t m e n t of chemis t ry , manufac- tu re a n d app l i ca t ions of oils, resins, varn ishes , and polymers . R e a d y ea r ly 1965.

J O H N W I L E Y & SONS, I N C . 605 Third Ave. * New York, N.Y. 10016

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