Abstract: A technique for presenting and fixturing small items that are coated by vapor deposition techniques. The objects are caused to be moved within the plasma stream to effect full coverage. The coating, if titanium nitride, is gold colored and is, for example, useful for coinage applications.

Abstract: A process in which ferric ion in water-soluble form is added to an effluent containing cyanide, arsenic and antimony and having a pH of about 5 to 9 and treating effluent with SO.sub.2 and oxygen in the presence of soluble copper to produce a treated effluent having very low contents of cyanide, arsenic and antimony.

Abstract: A process for treatment of cyanide-containing aqueous effluents in which ferrocyanide present is precipitated with a metal other than copper, preferably zinc either prior to or simultaneously with the treatment of the effluent with sulfur dioxide and air in the presence of soluble copper.

Abstract: A process for producing a composite material comprising a base having a nickel surface and a gold layer metallurgically bonded to the nickel of the base and having sufficient nickel to increase the hardness of the gold layer but insufficient to significantly destroy the distinctive color of the gold layer comprises depositing the gold layer on the nickel and annealing the composite structure to provide the metallurgical bond between the nickel and gold and to interdiffuse said metals, and the composite structure obtained by said process. The composite material is particularly useful as a coinage structure.

Abstract: Sponge titanium powder is compacted, advantageously by roll compaction to a density in the range of about 60% to 80% of the density of solid titanium metal, thereafter heat treated in vacuum at about 500.degree. C. to 750.degree. C., cooled in vacuum to 300.degree. C. and quenched to 100.degree. C. to provide a substrate for electrodes useful in electrolytic processes.

Abstract: A process for producing a composite material comprising a base having a nickel surface and a gold layer metallurgically bonded to the nickel of the base and having sufficient nickel to increase the hardness of the gold layer but insufficient to significantly destroy the distinctive color of the gold layer comprises depositing the gold layer on the nickel and annealing the composite structure to provide the metallurgical bond between the nickel and gold and to interdiffuse said metals, and the composite structure obtained by said process. The composite material is particularly useful as a coinage structure.