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FILE NAME: Owens Illinois (OWILL) DATE: 1935 June 14 DOC#: OWILL003 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Letter from OWILL to Prof. Philip Drinker OWENS*ILLINOIS CLASS COMPANY Toledo, Ohio C 0 P Y June 14, 1935 Professor Philip Drinker, 66 Shattuok St., Boston, Mass. My dear Philt Enolosed is a oheok for #500.00 payable to the Treasurer of Harvard University to cover the tests on solubility of glass in water sad blood serum. Some of the information we hope to obtain through this research is the answer to the question, how long will it take a pieoe of glass wool of given sice to dissolve, assuming a workman aooidentally runs it Into his finger, or other part of his body? Also, suppose an^ individual breathes glass wool dust, how long will it take, these small partiles in the lungs to dissolvet Snowing these data, and knowing from Dr. Gardner's work whether glass is toxio to tissues, we will have a-good Indication of the hasard involved in working, in an atmosphere contaminatad with glass wool dust. Beferrlng to our conversation regarding the difficulties in grinding glass wool, is thero any possibility that the fusing of the glass-- which, of oourse, yields a glass that has been annealed differently from "production" glass wool--would alter its solubility eharaeteristiest This is a question in glass ohemistry to whioh, I believe, Dr. Titus has already replied in the negative. However, I am oheoking the point to make certain I understood you oorrsotly. e Sinoerely WGHaxardiGP (Signed) Bill