Abstract:
The invention is directed to a container for receiving and safely storing radioactive or other materials damaging to living organisms, especially such materials as vitrified radioactive fission products or irradiated nuclear reactor fuel elements. The container includes a vessel and a sealing cover. The vessel has a circular opening at one of its ends for receiving the materials to be stored therein, and a sealing cover is seated in this opening to tightly seal the container. In order to obtain a container of the kind which has the required high impermeability to gas, the open end of the inner bore of the vessel is widened to define a conical surface. A sealing cover is pressed into the vessel at this conical surfce. The sealing cover has a peripheral surface which converges toward the interior of the vessel and which has a taper corresponding to that of the conical surface of the vessel. The vessel wall and sealing cover are welded together by means of a fused-mass joint extending around the entire periphery of the cover. By means of the conical configuration of the upper end portion of the vessel and of the sealing cover, a considerably improved seal between the vessel wall and the sealing cover is obtained. A method for sealing the container is also disclosed.
Abstract:
What is disclosed is a method for making an amide of acrylic acid or of methacrylic acid by the reaction of an alkyl ester of acrylic acid or of methacrylic acid with an amine at a temperature between 50.degree. C. and 180.degree. C., whereby the reaction with the amine is carried out in the presence of a catalytic amount of a compound of a metal of Group IVB of the periodic table of the elements or of a compound of lead, zinc, or tantalum.
Abstract:
In a method for making a carboxylic acid ester by the reaction of the corresponding carboxylic acid amide with a primary alcohol in the presence of a catalyst at elevated temperature, the improvement wherein said catalyst is an at least partially dissolved metal carboxylate or a compound forming a metal carboxylate by reaction in situ with a carboxylic acid, the anion of which metal carboxylate is the anion of said carboxylic acid.
Abstract:
UV absorbing compounds, susceptible to free-radical polymerization, of the formula ##STR1## wherein R is alkyl having from 4 to 12 carbon atoms of which not more than 6 are present in a linear chain, and in particular 2-(2'-hydroxy-3'-methacrylamidomethyl-5'-tert-octylphenyl)benzotriazole, and polymers thereof.
Abstract:
What is disclosed is the method for making an N-substituted acrylamide or an N-substituted methacrylamide which comprises reacting an alkyl ester of acrylic acid or of methacrylic acid with an aliphatic amine or with an aromatic amine at a temperature between 50.degree. C. and 180.degree. C. in the presence of a catalytic amount of a dialkyl tin oxide.
Abstract:
A method for making cyanogen chloride which comprises passing an approximately equimolar mixture of dicyan and chlorine over a charcoal catalyst at a temperature between 500.degree.C. and 950.degree.C. at a space velocity between 1000 and 10000 liters, measured at room temperature, per liter of catalyst and per hour.
Abstract:
A method for preparing carbonic acid esters, ##EQU1## by reacting an alcohol, ROH, with carbon monoxide and oxygen in the presence of a catalyst comprising a copper salt, chloride or bromide, and an organic phosphorus compound such as a phosphine oxide, phosphite, phosphate, or phosphonate.
Abstract:
A splice protection device is constructed for acceptance of a pair of light waveguides, with the splice location being optimally sealed by elastic holders having an adhesive film. The elastic splice protection device can be utilized in a bent shape, so that the dimensions of a cassette and other receptacle devices can be designed to be smaller.
Abstract:
What is disclosed is a continuous one-step method for the preparation of isobutyric acid or a lower alkyl ester thereof by the Koch synthesis, which method comprises reacting propylene, carbon monoxide, and water or a lower alcohol, in the gaseous and liquid phases, in the presence of hydrogen fluoride as a Koch catalyst, at a temperature between 80.degree. C. and 160.degree. C., at a dwell time of the liquid phase of less than 20 minutes, and with a high degree of backmixing, while maintaining the content of propylene in the reaction mixture at less than one percent by weight of the liquid phase, wherein all or part of the propylene, carbon monoxide, and water or lower alcohol can be replaced by binary addition compounds formed pairwise between these materials. In the alternative, isopropylformiate can be continuously rearranged in the presence of hydrogen fluoride to produce isobutyric acid.
Abstract:
What are disclosed are phosphorus-containing polyarylene esters,--O--A--O--CO--B--CO].sub.n,wherein A represents at least in part groups of the structure ##STR1## wherein x is 0 or 1 and R is aromatic or aliphatic, and wherein B represents either two different aromatic groups or at least one group with the structure --C.sub.6 H.sub.4 --R'--C.sub.6 H.sub.4 --, wherein R' is a bridging link of the group --O--, --S--, --SO.sub.2 --, --CO--, or isopropylidene, and wherein n is greater than 20, which esters have a phosphorus content of over 1 weight percent, are distinguished by improved thermoplastic processability, and are prepared by condensation of HO--A--OH, for example with ClCO--B--COCl in the presence of a base.
Abstract translation:所公开的是含磷聚亚芳基酯-OAO-CO-B-CO] n,其中A表示至少部分结构单元组,其中x是0或1,R是芳族或脂族的,其中 B表示两个不同的芳族基团或至少一个具有结构-C 6 H 4 -R'-C 6 H 4 - 的基团,其中R'是-O - , - S - , - SO 2 - , - CO- 或异丙叉,并且其中n大于20,所述酯的磷含量大于1重量%,其特征在于改进的热塑性加工性,并且通过HO-A-OH例如与ClCO-B-COCl 在一个基地的存在。