Abstract: The dielectric composition contains a mixture of a ceramic composition containing BaaREbTicO3, wherein RE represents a rare earth element, with 0.05?a?0.25, 0.525?b?0.70, 0.85?c?1.0, and 2a+3b+4c=6, and free from lead and bismuth, a glass composition, and a metal oxide. The glass composition preferably contains ZnO or MgO, SiO2, and at least 10% by weight of Li2O or TiO2. Preferably, the alkaline earth metal oxide is MgO. By preference, the glass composition essentially consists of 50–80% weight of SiO2, 5–25% weight of MgO, and optionally another alkaline earth metal oxide, and 10–25% by weight of Li2O, and is substantially free from boron. The dielectric composition can be sintered in the presence of Cu electrodes at a temperature below the melting point of Cu so as to manufacture an electronic device such as a ceramic multilayer element. After sintering, the dielectric composition has a relative dielectric constant of at least 55.

Abstract: The dielectric composition contains a mixture of a ceramic composition containing BaaREbTicO3, wherein RE represents a rare earth element, with 0.05≦a≦0.25, 0.525≦b≦0.70, 0.85≦c≦1.0, and 2a+3b+4c=6, and free from lead and bismuth, a glass composition, and a metal oxide. The glass composition preferably contains ZnO or MgO, SiO2, and at least 10% by weight of Li2O or TiO2. Preferably, the alkaline earth metal oxide is MgO. By preference, the glass composition essentially consists of 50-80% weight of SiO2, 5-25% weight of MgO, and optionally another alkaline earth metal oxide, and 10-25% by weight of Li2O, and is substantially free from boron. The dielectric composition can be sintered in the presence of Cu electrodes at a temperature below the melting point of Cu so as to manufacture an electronic device such as a ceramic multilayer element. After sintering, the dielectric composition has a relative dielectric constant of at least 55.

Abstract: The dielectric composition contains a mixture of a ceramic composition containing BaaREbTicO3, wherein RE represents a rare earth element, with 0.05≦a≦0.25, 0.525≦b≦0.70, 0.85≦c≦1.0, and 2a+3b+4c=6, and free from lead and bismuth, a glass composition, and a metal oxide. The glass composition preferably contains ZnO or MgO, SiO2, and at least 10% by weight of Li2O or TiO2. Preferably, the alkaline earth metal oxide is MgO. By preference, the glass composition essentially consists of 50-80% weight of SiO2, 5-25% weight of MgO, and optionally another alkaline earth metal oxide, and 10-25% by weight of Li2O, and is substantially free from boron. The dielectric composition can be sintered in the presence of Cu electrodes at a temperature below the melting point of Cu so as to manufacture an electronic device such as a ceramic multilayer element. After sintering, the dielectric composition has a relative dielectric constant of at least 55.

Abstract: A screwdriver for intra-oral implantation features a screwdriver shaft (2), which, at one of its ends, is connected with a hand piece (1) and at its other end, via an angular gear drive (3), with a rotatable tool chuck (4). The screwdriver shaft (2) consists of shaft segments (6) that can, at least partially, be moved in relation to each other and that can be tightened by means of a common longitudinal tightening device for the purpose of fixing them in their relative positions. A drive shaft consists, in the area of the shaft segments (6) of individual shaft pieces that, in the connecting area of two shaft segments (6), are connected via an angular gear for the purpose of torque transmission.

Abstract: A screwdriver for intra-oral implantation features a screwdriver shaft (2), which, at one of its ends, is connected with a hand piece (1) and at its other end, via an angular gear drive (3), with a rotatable tool chuck (4). The screwdriver shaft (2) consists of shaft segments (6) that can, at least partially, be moved in relation to each other and that can be tightened by means of a common longitudinal tightening device for the purpose of fixing them in their relative positions. A drive shaft consists, in the area of the shaft segments (6) of individual shaft pieces that, in the connecting area of two shaft segments (6), are connected via an angular gear for the purpose of torque transmission.

Abstract: A gas and steam-turbine plant includes a waste-heat steam generator downstream of a gas turbine on the exhaust-gas side. The waste-heat steam generator has a high-pressure preheater connected into a water/steam circuit of a steam turbine having a low-pressure part. In order to achieve as high a plant efficiency as possible, a heat exchanger which is disposed outside the waste-heat steam generator has a primary-side inlet connected to an outlet of the high-pressure preheater, a primary-side outlet connected to an inlet of the high-pressure preheater and a secondary side connected into an overflow conduit opening into the low-pressure part of the steam turbine. A method for operating such a plant includes superheating low-pressure steam flowing into the steam turbine by indirect heat exchange with a part stream of preheated feed water extracted from the high-pressure preheater.

Abstract: Earthquake-proof mounting support for control rod drives of nuclear reactors having a generally cylindrical reactor pressure vessel formed with a convex wall at least at one end thereof and including control rods with control rod drive shafts coupled thereto and mounted so as to be movable in axial direction thereof within tubular drive housings extending pressure-tightly through the end convex wall and sealed against the outside, the tubular drive housings comprising tube member forming respective feed-through passageways for the control rod drive shafts, the tube members having respective portions thereof extending with respectively varying lengths outside and beyond the convex wall to a given horizontal plane, and a support grid formed of a plurality of grid bars articulatingly connecting the tube members at respective free ends thereof outside the convex wall, respectively, to one another.