Abstract:
THE RENDER POWDERED FIRE-EXTINGUISHING AGENTS COMPATIBLE WITH FIRE-EXTINGUISHING FOAMS, FOR EXAMPLE FOAMS BASED ON PROTEINS, A MINOR PROPORTION OF GRAPHITE IS INCORPORATED IN THE POWDER. EXAMPLES OF FOAM-COMPATIBLE COMPOSITIONS SO OBTAINED ARE MIXTURES OF SODIUM BICARBONATE OR POTASSIUM BICARBONATE, OR THE FIRE-EXTINGUISHING AGENT MADE BY HEATING UREA WITH POTASSIUM BICARBONATE BELOW 150*C., WITH FINELY DIVIDED GRAPHITE THE PROPORTION OF THE LATTER IN THE MIXTURE BEING 0.01 TO 10% BY WEIGHT. FREE-FLOWING AND ANTI-CAKING AGENTS MAY BE INCLUDED IN THE FOAM-COMPATIBLE COMPOSITIONS.
Abstract:
CALCIUM CARBONATE IN THE ARAGONITE PHASE AND IN THE FORM OF NEEDLE-SHAPED CRYSTALS HAVING MAJOR AXES OF UP TO 100 MICRONS AND MINOR AXES OF 0.10 TO 3.0 MOCRONS IS MADE BY ADDING A SOURCE OF CARBONATE IONS TO AN AQUEOUS SOLUTION OF A CALCIUM SALT AT TEMPERATURES ABOVE 70*C. WHILST MAINTAINING THE CALCIUM CARBONATE SUPERSATURATION BELOW A GIVEN MAXIMUM VALUE.
Abstract:
Improved friction materials comprising a synthetic metal oxide fibre and a binder. The most useful fibres are polycrystalline alumina, alumina/silica or zirconia, and especially those made by fibrising an aqueous solution of a compound of the metal containing a water-soluble organic polymer and having a viscosity above 1 poise, drying the fibre and heating. Fibres of other oxides or mixed oxides may be used. The materials may include additives (lubricants, fillers, and metals) and are useful in brake units, in which they have advantages over conventional (cotton and asbestos) materials in their heat stability and reduced tendency to ''''fade'''' in service.
Abstract:
PREPARATION OF A NOVEL CRYSTAL FORM OF SODIUM CHLORIDE BY EVAPORATING SODIUM CHLORIDE BRINES CONTAINING CERTAIN ADDITIVES. THE NOVEL CRYSTAL FORM COMPRISES A CUBE HAVING RECTILINEAR COLUMNS OF RECTANGULAR, USUALLY SQUARE SECTION ATTACHED PERPENDICULARLY TO AT LEAST ONE PAIR OF ADJACENT FACES OF THE CUBES. TO THE COLUMNS THEMSELVES CAN ALSO BE ATTACHED, PERPENDICULARLY, FURTHER RECTILINEAR COLUMNS, AND SO ON, AND THE PERPENDICULAR POSITIONING HOLDS THE CRYSTALS APART FROM ONE ANOTHER IN THE MASS AND THE BULK-DENSITY OF SUCH A MASS IS CONSEQUENTLY LOW. THE ADDITIVES INCLUDE POLYVINYL ALCOHOL EITHER ALONE OR IN ASSOCIATION WITH POLYELECTROLYTES THAT GIVE RISE TO POLY-
ANIONS, AND COMBINATIONS OF A WATER-SOLUBLE POLYELECTROLYTE AND SALTS ABLE TO YIELD INORGANIC IONS THAT FORM INSOLUBLE OR SPARINGLY SOLUBLE SALTS WITH THE POLYIONS OF THE POLYELECTROLYTE. PARTICULARLY EFFECTIVE IS 1 TO 100 PARTS BY WEIGHT PER MILLION OF BRINE OF POLY(VINY ALCOHOL) OF MOLECULAR WEIGHT SUCH THAT THE VISCOSITY OF A 1% BY WEIGHT AQUEOUS SOLUTION AT 20*C. IS 1.1 TO 1.6 CENTISTOKES; OR A COMBINATION OF 5 TO 50 PARTS OF SODIUM ALGINATE AND 250-500 PARTS OF CALCIUM IONS BY WEIGHT PER MILLION OF BRINE.
Abstract:
Solid water-soluble aluminum phosphate complexes and binder composition which dissolve in water to give solutions containing aluminum ions and orthophosphate ions in such proportions as to provide an Al:P ratio of substantially 1:1 together with the anions of a carboxylic acid or a mineral oxyacid.
Abstract:
Complex phosphates of aluminum containing a halogen and chemically-bound molecule of a hydroxy compound, which may be water or an organic hydroxy compound. A typical example is a complex phosphate containing ethyl alcohol having the empirical formula AlPClH25C8O8. They are most conveniently prepared by the reaction of an aluminum halide with the appropriate hydroxy compound and orthophosphoric acid, under relatively cool conditions. The compounds are generally soluble in water and polar organic solvents. They decompose at low temperatures to give aluminum orthophosphate, thereby providing a method for producing aluminum phosphate in many forms, for example, fibers, coatings, binders and fine particles, from a solution in water or organic solvents.
Abstract:
A MOULD SURFACE IS COATED WITH A HALOGEN-CONTAINING COMPLEX PHOSPHATE OF ALUMINUM CONTAINING AT LEAST ONE CHEMICALLY-BOUND MOLECULE OF A HYDROXY COMPOUND R-OH, WHEREIN R IS A HYDROGEN ATOM, AN ALIPHATIC GROUP, OR A SUBSTITUTED ALIPHATIC GROUP AND A DISPERSANT FOR THE COMPLEX PHOSPHATE.