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'Rubber Acid' Damage in Fire Hoses
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'Rubber Acid' Damage in Fire Hoses

  • JULIUS GRANT1 

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READERS of the article on the above subject by Thaysen, Bunker and Adams1 may be interested in my experience when called upon to suggest means of preventing or delaying the relatively rapid deterioration of war-time fire hoses.

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GRANT, J. 'Rubber Acid' Damage in Fire Hoses. Nature 155, 581 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155581a0

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