Abstract: It has been found that the addition of small amounts of a benzoate or acetate ester of a polyfunctional hydroxy containing compound to an olefinic nitrile copolymer composition greatly increases the flowability and processibility of these thermoplastic copolymers.

Abstract: Coating compositions comprising intimate blends of a pigment and an interpolymer of monovinyl aromatic monomer, allylic alcohol and optionally allylic ester, wherein the weight ratio of pigment to interpolymer is in the range of about 2:1 to about 10:1. The compositions are useful for the preparation of electrographic recording materials.

Abstract: A composition comprising a radiation-curable polymer, said polymer being crosslinkable and having pendant ethylenically unsaturated peptide groups is disclosed. Such polymers are useful in the field of graphic arts.

Abstract: A coating composition is described which is suitable for use on road surfaces, floors, driveways, and similar surfaces and comprises chlorinated rubber, a plasticizer component and an organic solvent. The composition also advantgeously may contain powdered, amorphous silica. Preferred in the present invention is about equal amounts by weight of chlorinated rubber and a mixture of solid and liquid chlorinated paraffins as plasticizers, a minor amount of powdered amorphous silica and a mixture of aromatic and chlorinated aliphatic organic solvents.

Abstract: The composition of this invention is a polyethylene base resin composition containing a high concentration of an inorganic material, which has high flame retardancy and sufficient tensile elongation for practical application and is adapted to be used as a raw material for a field in which high flame retardancy is demanded such as coatings for flame retardant wires and cables and flame retardant raw material of foamed product. This composition mainly consists of a resin component formed of 10 to 75 parts by weight of polyethylene having a density ranging between 0.910 and 0.945 (g/cm.sup.3) and a melt index ranging from 0.01 to 2.0 (g/10 min) and 90 to 25 parts by weight of an ethylene-base copolymer and further contains 80 to 250 parts by weight of powder of a hydrated metal oxide on the basis of 100 parts by weight of the resin component of said polyethylene base resin composition.

Abstract: The invention provides novel curable unsaturated polyester compositions comprising an unsaturated polyester, a reactive copolymerizable monomer, a paraffin wax as an evaporation-reducing agent and as an adhesion promotor a compound, containing 10-30 carbon atoms, of the class consisting of alkylaromatic, alkenylaromatic, alkylolaromatic compounds or an alcohol.

Abstract: A cement composition which comprises a filler, a binder to be used in admixture with the filler, and a curing agent for polymerizing the binder, which is characterized by that the binder comprises, based on the total weight of the binder, 20-100% by weight of (A) a free-radical polymerizable monomer of the following formula: ##STR1## wherein R is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group and X is an organic residue having 1-48 carbon atoms, and 0-80% by weight of (B) a mono-, di- or tri-functional free-radical polymerizable monomer which is copolymerizable with the above monomer (A) is disclosed. By using the above binder, the filler is firmly bonded with each other and gives a cured product having high compressive strength and abrasion resistance. The cement composition is especially useful as dental restorative materials.

Abstract: Many liquids have properties improved, and fluid flow friction losses are reduced in flowing fluids by adding thereby a small, effective amount of composition comprising (i) a continuous phase of a liquid which is normally miscible with said fluid, and, dispersed therein, (ii) a stable discontinuous phase predominantly comprising fine particles of a high molecular weight polymer which is ultimately miscible with said fluid. In preferred features the compositions include a surface active agent. In other preferred features, friction is reduced in flowing hydrocarbons.

Abstract: Polymeric soaps prepared from copolymers of hydrophobic monomers and hydrophilic monomers are useful as granulation and/or drying aids for polymeric gels, especially those gels of polyacrylamide.

Abstract: A finish composition is disclosed for facilitating cotton type spinning of rimped cellulosic fibres comprising:(A) about 10-30% of an ester of a fatty acid with fatty alcohols;(B) about 8-15% of a partial ester of phosphoric acid, wherein part of the acid groups are free or salified;(C) about 50-70% of an oxyalkylated fatty acid;(D) up to 0.5% of a hydrosoluble organic or inorganic alkali metal salt; and(E) the balance to 100% of an alkali metal salt of a fatty acid with 6-20 carbon atoms.

Abstract: An agent for conditioning and imparting water repellency to leather comprises a homogeneous mixture of(a) 10 to 35% by weight of a compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein R is linear or branched alkyl or alkenyl each having 14 to 22 carbon atoms, m is a number average from 1.0 to 1.5 and n is 2 minus m;(b) 0 to 10% by weight of non-ionic emulsifiers;(c) 0 to 3% by weight of anionic emulsifiers with the proviso that the sum of (b) and (c) is 0.5 to 10%;(d) 0 to 5% by weight of an epoxide of the formula ##STR2## wherein R' is alkyl or alkenyl having 15 to 40 carbon atoms; (e) 0 to 25% by weight of fat liquors; and(f) 25 to 89.5% by weight of water or a water-miscible organic solvent.

Abstract: A soluble chromate or dichromate is incorporated in a system comprising a metal and an orthophosphate-containing liquid to inhibit corrosion of the system under highly turbulent conditions. The system in which the chromate or dichromate is incorporated is a system in which the metal surface is normally passivated against corrosion by an orthophosphate-containing film; however under the erosive conditions experienced by the system, the phosphate film is destroyed. The incorporation of the chromate or dichromate in the system prevents corrosion under such conditions. In a typical system, a chromate or dichromate is incorporated in an ammonium phosphate solution which is exposed to contact with a ferrous metal.