Word: oates
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Corncob Nylon. With its prize plastic, nylon, Du Pont had been experimenting at a Niagara Falls pilot plant. Object: to make one of nylon's basic ingredients (adipontrile) from a chemical (furfural) obtained from corncobs and oat hulls. This had proved so successful that capacity will be doubled this year, to produce enough adipontrile to use up 200,000 lbs. of corncobs yearly...
...Inside patients' appendices, surgeons have found: pins, needles, nails, screws, bird shot, bullets, iron filings, solder, stones, buttons, seeds, beans, oat hulls, chestnuts, pieces of bone and wood, straw, bristles, eggshell, hair and teeth...