Did you know?
PVC
was first made 'unintentionally' in 1872 by German chemist Eugen Baumann. He
exposed vinyl chloride gas sealed in a tube to sunlight and produced a white
solid called PVC. It was not until 1913 when German chemist Friedrich Klatte
received the first patent for PVC for his method for the polymerization of
vinyl chloride using sunlight. By World War I, Germany was producing a number
of flexible and rigid PVC products which were used as a replacement for
corrosion-resistant metals.
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