US Patent and Trademark Office is one of the greatest repositories of practical knowledge in history. But along with a great deal of very serious and edifying material, much legally advised and/or required verbiage, and inventor-inspired general-purpose pleonasms, there are some items in their records that are highly amusing. In this series, occasional examples of such patents and patent applications are going to be extracted and put up for their amusement value.
In order to perform a free radical polymerization, typically an initiator is required. However, this initiator is not useful for polymerization at all. Its electrochemistry merits are left as an exercise for the reader. The chemical reactive aspects of this invention are also rather loud...
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