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THE report of the Ontario Research Foundation for 1936 refers to the increased work carried out for industry. Two new laboratories for research on paints and on air-conditioning are now running smoothly. In the former, investigations on weathering tests and chemical analysis of white house paints, weathering of structural metal paints, etc., are in progress, while the latter is investigating the 'summer' comfort requirements in regard to temperature and humidity of people in Toronto. The work of the Textiles Division has been concerned with the development of a textile oil for use in processing woollen materials as well as with the development of a process for high-resistance tusser silk for electrical insulation purposes, and with processes for the reduction of shrinkage in textile materials. The Division of Engineering and Metallurgy has continued its studies on the effect of heat treatment on chilled cast-iron and on the forgeability of metals. The Division of Biochemistry has been concerned with the development of a new system of combination vegetable tannage for sale and transmission belting leather. A microscopic method for the early diagnosis of bovine mastitis has been worked out by the Division of Pathology and Bacteriology, while other work of the Foundation has been concerned with the deodorization and partial hydrogenation of cod liver oil without destroying the vitamin content, with the incidence of diseases of apples and related problems, and with a process for transferring pigments used in the paint industry from aqueous pastes to the oil phase.
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The Ontario Research Foundation. Nature 141, 638–639 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141638b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141638b0