Abstract:
A PROCESS FOR ELECTROCHEMICALLY REDUCING AROMATIC COMPOUNDS IN THE PRESENCE OF AN AQUEOUS SYSTEM CONTAINING AN AMINE, AN AMMONIUM SLAT OR AN INORGANIC ACID AND A CATALYST, SUCH AS BF3.
Abstract:
A PROCESS FOR ELECTROCHEMICALLY REDUCING AROMATIC COMPOUNDS IN THE PRESENCE OF AN AMINE, AN AMMONIUM SALT OR AN INORGANIC ACID AND A HYDROPHOBIC QUATERNARY AMINE SALT.
Abstract:
AN ETHYLENE-CARBOXYLIC ACID COPOLYMER IS PREPARED BY THE THERMAL DECOMPOSTION OF AN ETHYLENE-ISOPROPYL ESTER OF ACRYLIC OR METHACRYLIC ACID IN THE PRESENCE OF WATER VAPOR OR AMMONIA.
Abstract:
A CEMENT COMPOSITION FOR LINING STEEL PIPE BY CENTRIFUGAL CASTING OF A SLURRY OF THE CEMENT COMPOSITION COMPRISING SAND PARTICLES OF UNIFORM PARTICLE SIZE TO AVOID GRADATION OF THE SAND DURING THE CENTRIFUGAL CASTING OF THE LINING AND PORTLAND CEMENT IN A CONCENTRATION ADEQUATE TO JUST FILL THE VOIDS BETWEEN, AND WET THE SURFACE OF, THE SAND PARTICLES. A SMALL AMOUNT OF FLY ASH POZZOLAN IS INCLUDED IN THE COMPOSITION TO INCREASE THE FLUIDITY OF THE STIFF SLUDGE BY MIXING THE CEMENT COMPOSITION WITH WATER USED IN THE CASTING. AFTER CENTRIFUGAL CASTING OF THE LINING IN THE PIPE, THE PIPE IS STORED IN AN UNDISTURED CONDITION UNTIL INITIAL SET BEGINS AFTER WHICH THE LINING IS STEAM CURED AND WATER FLOODED.
Abstract:
An improved calibrator for moisture analyzers is provided. A flow of clean dry carrier gas into two streams, one of which passes through an improved saturator bomb, wherein it is completely saturated with water, and then this saturated stream is mixed with the other dry stream to provide a controlled wet stream for calibration. A capillary restrictor is used to control one of the streams. The invention utilizes a simple mathematical relationship for water concentration, means to vary each of the parameters in the relationship independently of the others, and means to simply determine values for the parameters, whichever are varied during a calibration.
Abstract:
UNSATURATED ALKYL SULFAMATES HAVING 10 TO 22 CARBON ATOMS, SUCH AS ERUCYL SULFAMATE AND OLEYL SULFAMATE, ARE PREPARED BY REFLUXING THE CORRESPONDING MONOUNSATURATED ALKENOL WITH SULFAMIDE IN A SUITABLE SOLVENT, SUCH AS DIOXANE, UNTIL EVOLUTION OF AMMONIA CEASES. THESE MONOUNSATURATED ALKYL SULFAMATES ARE USEFUL AS SLIP ADDITIVES IN MONI-OLEFIN POLYMERS, SUCH AS POLYETHYLENE OR POLYPROPYLENE WHEN ADDED IN AMOUNTS FROM 0.005 TO 1 PERCENT BY WEIGHT.
Abstract:
ORGANOSULFUR COMPOUNDS SUCH AS N-PROPYLMERCAPTAN, N-AMYLMERCAPTAN, ETHYSULFIDE, AND METHYL DISULFIDE ARE REMOVED FROM HYDROCARBONS, SUCH AS ISOOCTANE, BY HEATING THE HYDROCARBON SOLUTION IN CONTACT WITH DIMETHYLSULFATE, COOLING, AND REMOVING THE DIMETHYLSULFATE.
Abstract:
A METHOD OF OXIDIZING PROPYLENE AND ISOBUTENE TO THE CORRESPONDING UNSATURATED ALDEHYDES AND ACIDS AND FOR OXIDIZING THE UNSATURATED ALDEHYDES OF PROPYLENE AND ISOBUTENE TO THE CORRESPONDING UNSATURATED ACIDS BY THE VAPOR REACTION WITH MOLECULAR OXYGEN IN THE PRESENCE OF A CATALYST OF COBALT MOLYBDATE PROMOTED WITH A COMPOSITION OF TUNGSTEN, TELLURIUM AND OXYGEN. PROPYLENE IS CONVERTED TO ACROLEIN AND ACRYLIC ACID AND ACROLEIN IS CONVERTED TO ACRYLIC ACID.
Abstract:
Pigweed is combated in sugar beet fields by applying postemergently to the locus of the pigweed a herbicidally effective amount of a composition comprising one part by weight of methyl 3-(N''-m-tolylcarbamoyl)carbanilate and from one-fourth to two parts by weight of 2-(m-chlorophenyl)-4H-3,1-benzoxazin-4-one.
Abstract:
A PROCESS FOR CONVERTING, BY METATHESIS, AN OLEFIN, PARTICULARLY AN ALPHA OLEFIN, TO A PRODUCT CONTAINING A MIXTURE OF OLEFINS OF HIGHER AND LOWER CARBON NUMBER THAN THE OLEFIN CHARGE, WHICH INVOLVES CONTACTING THE OLEFIN CHARGE WITH A NOVEL COMPOSITION CONTAINING (1) ALUMINA, (2) COBALT, (3) MOLYBDENUM, AND (4) SILVER OR COPPER.