Manufacture of Polystyrene 65

(Courtesy FarreU-Birmingham Co.)

Figure 4.3. Two Banbury ® mixers.

Ostromislensky in 1927.1 It was only in recent years, how-

ever, that their industrial importance was recognized.

One commercial process for preparing rubber-styrene graft

polymers is similar to the procedure used for regular poly-

styrene by solvent polymerization as described earlier (see

i U. S. Patent 1,613,673 (Jan. 11, 1927).

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