Abstract: Aqueous emulsion copolymer composition useful as a textile treatment to provide superior durability to repeated washing and dry cleaning and increased stability to prolonged heat and light, to methods of preparing the aqueous emulsion polymers and to methods of treating textile materials with the compositions. The aqueous emulsion is characterized as being a thermally self-crosslinkable copolymer having a molecular weight in the range 50,000 to 10,000,000, a second order transition temperature (Tg) in the range -40.degree. C. to +30.degree. C. comprising:(a) 0.5 to 3% by weight of itaconic acid,(b) 2 to 12% by weight of glycidyl methacrylate,(c) 1 to 7% by weight of N-methylol acrylamide or N-methylol methacrylamide,(d) 35 to 96.5% by weight of ethylacrylate, and(e) at least one compatible monoethylenically unsaturated monomer.

Abstract: Compositions for textile treatment comprising an admixture of:(a) an aqueous emulsion of a copolymer of a monomeric mixture consisting essentially of an oxirane-containing monoethylenically-unsaturated material and at least one other monoethylenically-unsaturated material selected from the group characterized by the formula ##STR1## wherein R is H or C.sub.1 to C.sub.4 alkyl and R' is a straight chain or branched chain radical of a primary or secondary alkanol, alkoxyalkanol or alkylthiaalkanol having up to 14 carbon atoms, and(b) a water soluble or water dispersible polyamine which is composed of at least 4 alkylenimine units (--CH--CH--N--) which occur in sequences of such alkylenimine units having the formula A ##STR2## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are independently selected from hydrogen, and lower alkyl radicals of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R.sub.

Abstract: Compositions for textile treatment comprising an admixture of:(a) an aqueous emulsion of a copolymer of a monomeric mixture consisting essentially of an oxirane-containing monoethylenically-unsaturated material and at least one other monoethylenically-unsaturated material selected from the group characterized by the formula ##STR1## wherein R is H or C.sub.1 to C.sub.4 alkyl and R' is a straight chain or branched chain radical of a primary or secondary alkanol, alkoxyalkanol or alkylthiaalkanol having up to 14 carbon atoms, and(b) a water soluble or water dispersible polyamine which is composed of at least 4 alkylenimine units (--CH--CH--N--) which occur in sequences of such alkylenimine units having the formula A ##STR2## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are independently selected from hydrogen, and lower alkyl radicals of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R.sub.

Abstract: A gelled water-bearing explosive comprising a water-soluble oxygen releasing salt such as ammonium nitrate, a fuel, water and a gelling agent. The gelling agent is an organic metallic complex of a metal with a copolymer of a water-soluble monomer and a monomer which forms, with a metal, a chelate ring.