Chemistry of building materials

✍ Scribed by Stradling, R. E.

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 1938
• Weight: 108 KB
• Volume: 57
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0368-4075
• DOI: 10.1002/jctb.5000570203

✦ Synopsis

spcciification governing the siipplics of crcnsotc iu the past, rind i t n riniilysis of tlic crcosotc rciniiining in tlic wood aftcr iill tlicsc ycnrs. ' I ~I C rcsults Iiiivc iippciircd in tlic pages of tlic Socicty's Joiirniil (August 17,193.1), but I incntion thciii here Imniisc it is good to know the t , y p of crcosotc now hcing siipplictl to 13.S.T. Spccificrrtion 1.111 providcs t,liirt I)iiliincc of low boiling and high lioilii~g oils ~vhicli hcis proved to IIC siicli nil t!liiciciit wood pwserviitive over i i long spin of ycars. It gives onc n feeling of confidcncc tliiit thc 2 inillion cuhic fcct of tiiiibcr, wliicli is crcosotccl with this typc of oil and put into tlic Post Office scrvico annually, will do its work satisfnctorily nnd stiind up to its job as nobly :is tlic three iiiillion poles wliicli innkc the overhead tclccoiiiiiiiinicii tions of this country :is rcliahlc and cUiciciit :IS tbcy i i ~.