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Aug. 08, 1972 - Intense ultraviolet radiation may hole the key to the development of an essentially pollution-free process for creating decorative, protective, and insulating coatings on industrial products. This finding was announced yesterday by General Electric's Dr. Siegfried H. Schroeter and James E. Moore at a national meeting in New York City of the American Chemical Society. The GE studies - still in the laboratory stage - use special formulations that are applied like common paints. The coated object is then exposed to intense ultraviolet light, triggering chemical reactions that make its coating completely hard and dry in less than three minutes. Under most conditions, only about two percent of the weight of the coating is released into the air. By contrast, conventional paints take an hour or more to dry, during which time up to 65 percent of the weight of the formulation evaporates into the air. Dr. Schroeter and Miss Ona Valys are shown preparing to insert a coated sample into an ultraviolet test chamber at the GE Research and Development Center, Schenectady, N.Y

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