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From 1930 to 1935, they developed dichlorodifluoromethane (CCl 2 F 2 or R12), trichlorofluoromethane (CCl 3 F or R11), chlorodifluoromethane (CHClF 2 or R22), trichlorotrifluoroethane (CCl 2 FCClF 2 or R113), and dichlorotetrafluoroethane (CClF 2 CClF 2 or R114), through Kinetic Chemicals which was a joint venture between DuPont and General ...
DuPont de Nemours, Inc., commonly shortened to DuPont, is an American multinational chemical company first formed in 1802 by French-American chemist and industrialist Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours. The company played a major role in the development of the U.S. state of Delaware and first arose as a major supplier of gunpowder.
DuPont's explored chemical reactions in supercritical water in the 1950s to support its production of CrO 2 for magnetic recording tapes. Hyperbaric recrystallization of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene led to DuPont's business in Hylamer polyethylene for bearing surfaces in hip and knee replacement arthroplasty.
Hercules, Inc. was a chemical and munitions manufacturing company based in Wilmington, Delaware, United States, incorporated in 1912 as the Hercules Powder Company following the breakup of the DuPont explosives monopoly by the U.S. Circuit Court in 1911. [1]
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In 1969, Harold Edward Bellis from DuPont filed a patent for a general class of processes using sodium borohydride, dimethylamine borane, or sodium hypophosphite, in the presence of thallium salts, thus producing a metal-thallium-boron or metal-thallium-phosphorus; where the metal could be either nickel or cobalt. The boron or phosphorus ...