Abstract: An acidic aqueous cleaner, preferably in emulsion or microemulsion form, which is of a pH in the range of one to four and is useful for cleaning hard surfaced items, such as bathtubs, sinks, tiles and porcelains, and even some such items which are not acid resistant, such as those of a European enamel known as zirconium white enamel, comprises synthetic organic detergent, such as a mixture of anionic and nonionic detergents, e.g., sodium paraffin sulfonate, higher fatty alcohol ethoxylate sulfate and higher fatty alcohol or phenol ethoxylate, organic acid, e.g., mixture of succinic, glutaric and adipic acids, phosphonic acid, e.g., aminotris-(methylenephosphonic acid) and phosphoric acid in an aqueous medium.The acidic cleaner is useful to remove soap scum, lime scale and grease from surfaces of the mentioned items without adversely affecting such surfaces, and removals of the scum, scale and grease are easy, being effected by applying the microemulsion to the surface to be cleaned, followed by wiping it off.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and composition for preventing or reducing foaming in a hydrocarbon fuel. One aspect of the invention provides a hydrocarbon fuel composition including from 0.1 to 500 ppm of a bis amide as an anti-foam agent.

Abstract: A silicone grease composition comprising an organosiloxane containing long-chain alkyl groups, a thickener, and an organomolybdenum compound is disclosed.The silicone grease composition is excellent not only in heat and cold resistance, oxidation resistance, chemical stability and low-load lubricity but also in high-load (extreme-pressure) lubricity.

Abstract: Materials such as amines, alcohols, aminoalcohols, ethers and mixtures thereof, including halogenated adducts thereof, have been found to be useful floc modifiers for water clarifiers to form an effective overall water clarifier composition. The water clarifier portion of the composition is a dithiocarbamate. The floc modifier of a particular water clarifier composition need not be the same compound that is reacted with carbon disulfide (CS.sub.2) to make the water clarifier portion of the novel compositions.

Abstract: The invention provides a composition comprising:(A) at least one dicarboxylic acid or anhydride or at least one ammonium or metal salt of the dicarboxylic acid or anhydride; and(B) at least one compound represented by the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 are each independently hydrogen, alkyl, hydroxyalkyl, polyhydroxyalkyl, polyalkoxyalkyl or hydroxypolyalkoxyalkyl; and R.sub.1 is a hydrocarbyl group. In another embodiment, the compositions include (C) at least one acid, or ammonium or metal salt of the acid represented by the formula: ##STR2## wherein R.sub.6, R.sub.7, R.sub.8 and R.sub.9 are each independently hydrogen or hydrocarbyl groups; and n is a number from 1 to about 10;(D) at least one ester-salt derived from at least alkyl or alkenyl succinic acid or anhydride of about 8 to about 28 carbon atoms and at least one alkanol amine;or mixtures of (C) and (D).The invention further provides for concentrates and functional fluids containing the above corrosion-inhibitors.

Abstract: A shampoo which is a mixture in the form of a suspension. The suspension includes at least one nonionic surfactant, at least one detersive surfactant, water, and an amine functional siloxane polymer. The shampoo suspension is free of viscosity modifying thickening compositions. The amine functional siloxane polymer is present in the suspension in the form of insoluble particles dispersed in the mixture, and the particles have a diameter in the suspension of the order of magnitude of between about one micron to about one hundred microns. The amine functional siloxane polymer should also have a mole percent of amine units of the order of magnitude of about 0.05 to about 1.5.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an deinking agent used for reproduction of printed waste papers such as newspapers, magazines, leaflets and the like, and mainly contains one or more additives selected from the group comprising(a) additives made by adding one or more selected from alkylene oxides to at least one selected from dimer acids and polymer acids of higher unsaturated fatty acids having a carbon number of 16-20;(b) additives made by adding one or more selected from alkylene oxides to at least one selected from partial esters which are made of an alcohol having a carbon number of 1-18 and dimer acids and polymer acids of higher unsaturted fatty acids having a carbon number of 16-20;(c) additives made by adding one or more selected from alkylene oxides to one or more selected from dicarboxylic acids or dicarboxylic acid monoesters.

Abstract: A composition for treating an aqueous system to inhibit deposition of scale caused by scale-forming impurities in the system which comprises (A) a hydrolysed homopolymer of maleic anhydride having a weight average molecular weight of 400 to 800 or a water-soluble salt thereof and (B) a carboxyl-containing acrylic polymer having a weight average molecular weight of 800 to 9500 selected from a polyacrylic acid, a polymethacrylic acid, a copolymer of at least two acrylic monomers, one of the monomers being acrylic acid of methacrylic acid, a copolymer of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid with a vinyl carboxylate or a styrene, a phosphinoacrylic acid telomer or a phosphinomethacrylic acid telomer, of a water-soluble salt of the carboxyl-containing acrylic polymer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a lubricating oil composition containing a fluoroalkyl group-containing alcohol represented by the general formula:R.sub.f --R.sup.1 --OH (I)(wherein R.sup.1 is an alkylene group having 2 to 15 carbon atoms, and R.sub.f is a fluoroalkyl group having 5 to 16 carbon atoms, providing that the number of fluorine atoms in R.sub.f is at least 2n-3 (wherein n is the number of carbon atoms in R.sub.f), and each carbon atom in R.sub.f is bonded to at least one fluorine atom) and a polyether compound. This composition has excellent anti-seizure property and excellent high-temperature solubility in a refrigerant.

Abstract: Motor fuel compositions comprising gasoline are improved to control octane requirement increase (ORI) by including an ester of an N-acyl sarcosinate acid or salt and a polyether polyol including oxyalkylene units selected from oxypropylene and/or oxybutylene.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an effective stripping composition which is particularly useful in the removal of paint from paint booths, said stripping composition comprising a solvent and an effective thickening agent combination of silica microparticles and a co-thickening agent such as a metal salt.

Abstract: A thermal insulating material based on a pigment-containing silica aerogel is obtainable bya) reacting an aqueous dispersion of sodium silicate and a pigment with a strong acid or sodium silicate with a pigment-containing strong acid to give a pigment-containing silica hydrogen, the pigment being such that it scatters, absorbs or reflects infrared radiation of wavelength 3-10 .mu.m,b) substantially freeing the resulting pigment-containing silica hydrogel from ionic constituents by washing with water,c) displacing the water in the hydrogen by a low-boiling liquid which is inert toward the pigment-containing silica gel,d) heating the liquid-containing silica gel thus obtained under supercritical conditions while completely covered with the liquid, ande) subsequently removing the liquid from the solid by flash vaporization at supercritical temperature.

Abstract: A method for cleaning a surface of a substrate which comprises treating the surface with a dichloro-pentafluoro-propane solvent. The method is specifically directed to the use of 1,1-dichloro-2,2,3,3,3-pentafluoro propane and 1,3-dichloro-1,1,2,2,3-pentafluoropropane as the cleaning solvent.

Abstract: Non-sulphurized overbased metal salts of sulphur-free calixarenes having a substituent hydroxyl group or groups available for reaction with metal base are claimed. The salts are useful as additives to lubricating oils by reason of their acids neutralization capability, their detergent and their antioxidant properties.

Abstract: A lubricant oil for refrigerators, industrial gears, automotive engines, automotive gear oil, fibers and as a rolling lubricant oil, comprising a glycol ether carbonate represented by the general formula [I]R.sub.1 --0--R.sub.3 --0).sub.m CO--OR.sub.4).sub.n OR.sub.2 [I]wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are each independently an aliphatic group, an alicyclic group, an aromatic group and an aromatic-substituted aliphatic group each having not greater than 20 carbon atoms, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are each independently an ethylene group or an isopropylene group, and m and n are each independently an integer of 2 to 100, and optionally containing ozone layer-nondestructive Freon such as Freon R-134a.

Abstract: A non-aqueous liquid cleaning composition comprises solid particles, such as builders, bleaches or abrasives, dispersed in a liquid phase, ideally an alkoxylated liquid surfactant, and, as a dispersion modifier, naphthalene sulphonic acid, a formaldehyde condensate thereof or ideally a mixture of the two.

Abstract: A solid calcium hypochlorite composition contains calcium hypochlorite and an alkali metal salt of phosphonobutane polycarboxylic acid having an available chlorine concentration of at least 50 percent by weight.It has been found that the use of the novel compositions of the present invention can significantly reduce scale formation in dispensers for calcium hypochlorite particularly where water having high total alkalinity is used. The prevention or inhibition of scale formation is accomplished without harmfully affecting other properties of the pool water such as the pH.

Abstract: Process for dyeing keratinous fibres, comprising the application of:(a) a component (A) containing at least one rare earth salt in a medium suitable for dyeing, and(b) a component (b) containing, in a medium suitable for dyeing, at least one indole derivative of formula (I): ##STR1## in which: R.sub.1 denotes a hydrogen atom or a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group;R.sub.2 and R.sub.3, which may be identical or different, denote a hydrogen atom, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl group, a carboxyl group or a (C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy)carbonyl group;R.sub.4, R.sub.5, R.sub.6 and R.sub.7, which may be identical or different, denote a hydrogen atom, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, carboxyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 carboxyalkyl, (C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy) carbonyl, (C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy)carbonyl(C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl), carbamyl, halogen, mono- or polyhydroxy(C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl) or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 aminoalkyl radical, a group OZ in which Z denotes hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 linear or branched alkyl, an aryl(C.sub.1 -C.sub.

Abstract: A railway diesel crankcase lubricant composition comprising a major portion of a diesel lubricating oil and a minor amount of, as an oxidation and corrosion inhibiting agent, a condensate product prepared by the process comprising:(a) reacting a dibasic acid anhydride, separately, with:(i) a oligomeric isobutylene, and(ii) 2,5-dimercapto-1,3,4,-thiadiazole, to produce, respectively, oligomeric(isobutylene-g-succinic anhydride) and 2-thio-(5-mercapto-1,3,4-thiadiazole) succinic anhydride;(b) reacting both of the succinic anhydrides with pentamethylenediamine to produce the [2-thio-(5-mercapto-1,3,4-thiadiazole)]-[oligomeric(isobutylene-g-succinic )]-pentamethylenetetraamine-bis succinimide product; and(c) recovering the bis-succinimide product.

Abstract: Long chain aliphatic hydrocarbyl amine additives which comprise a long chain aliphatic hydrocarbyl component, an amine component and an oxy-alkylene hydroxy connecting group connecting the aliphatic hydrocarbyl component and amine component are useful as deposit control additives in fuel compositions and as dispersants in lubricating oil compositions.