Abstract: German published patent application 2,710,399 discloses a process for the manufacture of ammonium sulfamate involving introducing sulfur trioxide and ammonia into a pressure vessel containing a melt that mainly consists of ammonium sulfamate and ammonium imidosulfamate, while maintaining a molar ratio between NH.sub.3 and SO.sub.3 from 1.5:1 to 1.99:1. It has now been found that the pressure vessel is suitably released from pressure for a short period of time after prolonged reaction times to discharge thus the main quantity of the collecting inert gases.

Abstract: The trialkali metal salts of nitrilotriacetate are well known detergent builders. However, when hypochlorite bleach is added to the wash water it can oxidize the soluble uncomplexed nitrilotriacetate with the resultant loss of the beneficial effects of the use of such salts as a builder. Now, a method has been developed of protecting the desirable builder properties of the trialkali metal nitrilotriacetate in an aqueous solution containing active chlorine which comprises adding to the nitrilotriacetate a sufficient amount of trialkali metal imidodisulfate to protect at least some of the nitrilotriacetate from damage by the chlorine.

Abstract: Hydrazine sulfate having a relatively large particle diameter and a high purity is produced by hydrolysis of benzophenoneazines by sulfuric acid having a concentration of 75% by weight or less in an amount of 1.1 times by mole or more the stoichiometric amount in a very high conversion and a high yield with less operational loss.

Abstract: A process for obtaining hydroxylammonium salts from aqueous solutions containing hydroxylammonium salts in mixture with ammonium and/or sodium salts. Said solutions are contacted with a water immiscible organic solution containing a cation exchange compound of structure R.sub.1 COOX, or (R.sub.2 O)(R.sub.3 O)POOX, or (R.sub.2 O)PO(OX).sub.2, or mixtures thereof and optionally an additive of structure R.sub.4 R.sub.5 R.sub.6 PO, or (R.sub.4 O)(R.sub.5 O)(R.sub.6 O)PO, or mixtures thereof, wherein R.sub.1 is an alkyl or alkenyl group of from twelve to twenty carbon atoms, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are alkyl groups of from six to eighteen carbon atoms, R.sub.4, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 are alkyl groups of from three to twelve carbon atoms, and X is H, Na or NH.sub.4, whereby hydroxylammonium ions are preferentially extracted from the aqueous phase in exchange for X from the organic phase.

Abstract: The alkali metal salts of imidobis sulfuric acid, particularly the trisodium salt, is effective in heavy duty laundry detergent compositions by reducing the damaging effects of chlorine-containing bleaches on the fabric while minimizing the loss in effectiveness of the bleach in removing stains from the soiled fabric. Accordingly, a detergent composition is provided which comprises, based on the total weight of the composition, at least 5 percent by weight of a surfactant selected from the group consisting of anionic, nonionic, zwitterionic, ampholytic and amphoteric surfactants, at least 5 percent by weight of a builder, and a bleach-damage mitigating amount of trisodium imidobis sulfate, tripotassium imidobis sulfate or mixtures thereof. A process for washing soiled fabrics is also provided comprising contacting the fabrics with a detergent, a chlorine-containing bleach, and a bleach-damage mitigating amount of the alkali metal imidobis sulfate.

Abstract: Ammonium sulfamate is prepared by introducing sulfur trioxide and ammonia into a pressure vessel that contains a melt essentially consisting of ammonium sulfonate and ammonium imido disulfonate using a molar ratio of NH.sub.3 to SO.sub.3 of 1.5 to 1.99:1. The gases that accumulate on top of the molten phase are not removed from the pressure vessel.

Abstract: Solutions of nitrosylsulfuric acid in sulfuric acid are manufactured by reacting nitric acid with sulfur in sulfuric acid or oleum. Less than 0.33 gram atom of sulfur is employed per mole of nitric acid, and after completion of the reaction the free nitric acid still present in the nitrosylsulfuric acid solution is reduced with lactones.

Abstract: Builder for detergent containing imidobissulfates.

Abstract: A method of removing nitrogen oxides from a gas containing nitrogen oxides and converting same to a salt of imidodisulfonic acid, wherein the gas containing nitrogen oxides is brought into contact with an aqueous solution which contains at least one ferrous salt and at least one sulfurous acid alkali salt to absorb the nitrogen oxides in solution in the form of imidodisulfonic acid alkali salts.

Abstract: A process for making hydroxyl ammonium salts by hydrogenation of nitric oxide in an acid medium in the presence of a platinum catalyst, wherein the catalyst contains 15 to 50 atom percent of selenium and the acid medium is at least 2N during the reaction. A new catalyst and method of making it are also disclosed.

Abstract: Chlorine or bromine are produced from the respective hydrogen halide in a reaction system, wherein a stoichiometric excess of active nitrogen is maintained within the reaction system over the amount of hydrogen halide in the system. Preferably the reaction system is a single tower wherein sulfuric acid is introduced to the top of the tower where it absorbs the active nitrogen while conditions are so set that at the bottom of the tower the gases, introduced there, strip the active nitrogen away from the acid. It is a further characteristic of the process, that the nitrogen compounds stripped at the bottom, are mainly stripped as a mixture of nitrogen monoxide and nitrogen dioxide. A major portion of the nitrogen monoxide stripped, is oxidized with the oxygen, present in the gases fed in the bottom, to form nitrogen dioxide. If hydrogen halide is fed in the bottom, it will also strip nitrogen compounds, but mostly in the form of nitrosyl-halide.