Abstract: Opaque, thermoplastic molding compositions comprising a grafted rubber phase and a matrix phase comprising styrene, acrylonitrile, and from 1 to 18 percent of a lower alkyl methacrylate and having improved colorability are disclosed.

Abstract: The use of organic solvent-based coating compositions in the preparation of plastic coated steel feedstock for use in the manufacture of retortable draw-redraw food and beverage cans is substantially reduced or eliminated by using as such can feedstock a laminated or extrusion coated steel sheet having adhered to at least one, and preferably to both, major planar surface(s) thereof a layer of an adhesive synthetic thermoplastic resin composition having a crystalline melting point of at least about 250.degree. F. and comprising graft copolymer of high density polyethylene with an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer.

Abstract: The use of organic solvent-based coating compositions in the preparation of coated steel feedstock for use in the manufacture of draw-redraw food and beverage cans is eliminated by using as such can feedstock a laminated or extrusion coated steel sheet (e.g., such as electrolytic chrome/chrome oxide coated steel) having adhered to both major planar surfaces thereof an irradiated multilayered synthetic thermoplastic resin coating comprising:(1) an adhesive synthetic thermoplastic resin inner layer which is composed of at least a major proportion of a normally solid random copolymer of ethylene with from about 1 to about 30 weight percent, based upon the weight of such copolymer, of an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer and which is bonded directly to the surface of said steel sheet and(2) an outer layer of a synthetic thermoplastic polymer resin which has a crystalline melting point of at least about 250.degree. F. and which is adhered to said adhesive resin inner layer.

Abstract: The use of organic solvent-based coating compositions in the preparation of coated steel feedstock for use in the manufacture of retortable draw-redraw food and beverage cans is eliminated (A) by using as such can feedstock a laminated or extrusion coated steel sheet comprising a steel sheet material (e.g., such as electrolytic chrome/chrome oxide coated steel) having adhered to both major planar surfaces thereof a multilayered synthetic thermoplastic resin coating comprising (1) an adhesive synthetic thermoplastic resin inner layer (e.g., such as a layer of a normally solid random ethylene/acrylic acid copolymer) bonded directly to the surface of said steel sheet material and (2) an outer layer of a synthetic thermoplastic polymer resin which has a crystalline melting point of at least about 250.degree. F.

Abstract: Plastic/metal laminates (such as, for example, plastic coated cable shielding or armoring tapes) having improved high and/or low temperature adhesion to various olefin polymer substrates (such as, for example, cable jacketing resins) are provided which comprise at least one metallic substrate having directly adhered to at least one surface thereof a first thermoplastic polymer layer of a random copolymer of ethylene with an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer and having adhered to said first polymer layer a second thermoplastic polymer layer comprising a polymer blend of (a) either the same or a different random copolymer of ethylene with an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid as used in said first polymer layer and (b) at least one different ethylenic olefin polymer resin which is not a random ethylene/unsaturated carboxylic acid copolymer.

Abstract: Polymer blends are provided which are characterized by good processability on conventional extrusion equipment to provide films having excellent adhesion to various substrates while still exhibiting good non-blocking properties during film manufacture, storage, shipment and use. Such blends comprise, based upon the total blend weight, from 5 to about 90 weight percent of a high melt index adhesive resin; from about 5 to about 90 weight percent of a relatively low melt index adhesive resin; and from about 5 to about 70 weight percent of non-adhesive resin having a melt index of from about 3 to about 10.

Abstract: Cement slurries comprising (a) iron (II) sulfate, or hydrate thereof, (b) aluminum sulfate, or a hydrate thereof, (c) a hydraulic cement comprising calcium hydroxide or a hydrolyzable calcium oxide (e.g., a Portland cement), and (d) water, are described. These cement slurries are pumpable and thixotropic and have particular utility in cementing pipe into the borehole of a petroleum well.

Abstract: A foamed, thixotropic hydraulic cement slurry and method of using same in cementing subterranean voids. This lightweight cement slurry is particularly useful for cementing in oil or gas wellbores penetrating a weak underground formation which will be broken by cement slurries of ordinary density.

Abstract: Extruded styrenic polymer foams having improved flammability characteristics are obtained when using volatile fluid blowing agents by incorporating therein a small amount (e.g., from about 0.03 to about 2 weight percent based on polymer) of a waxy material in conjunction with at least one conventional non-waxy halogenated flame retarding agent.

Abstract: Paper coating compositions having an improved combination of properties are prepared by admixing, in the normal proportions and by conventional techniques, one or more conventional paper coating pigments with a particular type of synthetic polymer latex. In such compositions, the particular latex employed is alkali-sensitive and is prepared by emulsion polymerizing (A) from about 10 to about 90 parts by weight of a monomer mixture comprising, based upon the weight of such monomer mixture, (1) from about 10 to about 60 weight percent of an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer and (2) from about 40 to about 90 weight percent of a copolymerizable monoolefin compound in the presence of (B) from about 10 to about 90 parts by weight, on a polymer solids basis, of a copolymer latex comprising a monovinylidene aromatic monomer such as styrene and an open-chain aliphatic conjugated diene such as butadiene.

Abstract: Polymers, such as butadiene copolymers and isoprene copolymers, having pendant unsaturated tetra-aliphatic quaternary nitrogen moieties, such as those derived from acrylic esters and acrylamides are useful as water-soluble or inherently water-dispersible curable coatings such as protective and/or decorative coatings, paper coatings, textile fiber coatings, printing plates, photo-curable imagable materials useful as photo-resists, lithographic plates, etc., and the like. Such coatings are curable with light, with high energy radiation and with heat in the presence of free radical catalysts to form insoluble, crosslinked coatings.