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    Who famously mixed something people used to use for washing with something people used to use for preserving corpses and ended up with a substance that people used to have a lot of around their homes? For a bonus, what does ten-pin bowling have to do with the discovery?

    Question #52879. Asked by gmackematix.

    baldricksmum

    Dr Leo Baekeland invented Bakelite, which is used for the floors of ten pin bowling alleys.

    [Dec 04 04 10:56 AM] baldricksmum writes:

    Sorry, I didn't say that the ingredients were fomaldehyde and carbolic acid.

    (As one entry - McG)

    Dec 04 04, 10:52 AM
    gmackematix

    A yay for Baldricksmum, there. Now we have more pleasant soaps than carbolic acid, corpses usually smell better than formaldehyde and we don't see so much Bakelite around the house. How things change.
    I can't imagine this plastic being used on bowling alley floors but it seems Baekeland was looking for a substance that would do this when he made his discovery.

    Dec 04 04, 10:00 PM
    philsgirl

    I hope you're feeling better, g.

    Dec 04 04, 10:04 PM

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