Abstract: A method of preparing fibrous hydrophilic fluff having increased absorbency is disclosed. An absorbent polymer solution is coated on base fluffing material, and the coated fluffing material is dried, disintegrated and mechanically worked into a fibrous fluff matrix which contains absorbent polymer platelets distributed throughout said matrix.

Abstract: The corrosion resistance of dicyclopentadiene (DCPD) modified unsaturated polyester or DCPD modified unsaturated polyesteramide resins can be improved by replacing a part of the styrene used as a reactant diluent in the resin with materials, such as divinylbenzene.

Abstract: Unsaturated esters can be prepared from dicarboxylic acids and dibromoneopentyl glycol with improved resin color in a shorter reaction time with minimal corrosion of metallic reaction vessels and with a net energy saving by the process using an aryl sulfonic acid as the esterification catalyst and following completion of the reaction neutralizing the acid catalyst.

Abstract: Oxalic acid, alone or in combination with phenothiazine or with phenothiazine and 4-chloro-2-nitrophenol, increases the storage life of vinyl ester resins or unsaturated polyesters without adversely suppressing the exotherm or affecting their curability.

Abstract: A cured resin system is used to encapsulate certain liquid low level radioactive wastes which are solvents for or are soluble in the uncured resin and which are more soluble in water than in the uncured resin. The process comprises the dilution of said waste with water to an extent that the amount of waste that will partition in the uncured resin system is less than the amount that will retard the cure rate of the system or that will adversely affect physical properties of the cured product, followed by the uniform dispersion of the aqueous solution in said curable resin system after which the resin system is cured to a solid with the aqueous waste solution dispersed therein.

Abstract: Polyether resins of the formula XA.sub.m wherein A is of the formula ##STR1## and X, R, R' and R" are specified substituents are disclosed.

Abstract: Pre-accelerated vinyl ester resin compositions containing N-phenyl morpholine, for example, have exceptionally good storage stability and exhibit little or no drift in gel time over extended periods of storage. In combination with benzoyl peroxide as a catalyst, the resins cure readily at ambient temperature.

Abstract: Unsaturated resin compositions, which are curable at elevated temperatures to temperatures below 0.degree. C and which contain a hydroperoxide as the catalyst and a soluble organic vanadium compound as a cure promoter or accelerator, are retarded against gelation without inhibiting the cure by the addition of a ketone peroxide.

Abstract: A liquid composition exhibiting reversible solution/emulsion phase transition to provide a relatively constant viscosity/temperature relationship is provided with a hydrocarbon oil and a minor amount of an interpolymer of at least one hydrocarbon monomer and at least one dispersant monomer having an oil soluble pendant moiety wherein the interpolymer is soluble in the oil above a characteristic transition temperature and wherein the dispersant monomer is in sufficient amount to maintain the interpolymer in a stable colloidal dispersion below that transition temperature.

Abstract: Erosion of soil is inhibited by forming a wind and rain resistant mat thereon by the method whereby a water soluble cellulose ether is dispersed in a latex containing at least 2.0 percent solids of an interpolymer of an alkenyl aromatic monomer, a conjugated diolefin and an unsaturated carboxylic acid and an organo sulfonate; the composition diluted, plant fibers dispersed therein and the so formed dispersion deposited on the soil in the form of a covering layer.

Abstract: A cleaning formulation for cleaning stubborn stains comprises an aqueous solution of (a) an alkali metal alkyl sulfate wherein the alkyl is a straight chain of from about 6 to 20 carbon atoms, (b) an alkylated diphenyl oxide sulfonic acid alkali metal salt, such as sodium dodecyl diphenyl oxide disulfonate, (c) a branched chain alkyl aryl sulfonate wherein the alkyl group contains from 8 to 18 carbon atoms or (d) mixtures thereof as a detergent with less than one weight percent of sodium hypochlorite and with an amount of an alkaline builder to maintain the pH above about 11.0.

Abstract: Nonionic water soluble thickening agents are prepared by copolymerizing about 1 to 5 mole percent of a vinyl benzyl ether having the formula ##STR1## and the balance to make 100 mole percent of acrylamide.

Abstract: Nonionic water soluble thickening agents are prepared by copolymerizing about 1 to 5 mole percent of a vinyl benzyl ether having the formula ##STR1## and the balance to make 100 mole percent of acrylamide.

Abstract: Nonionic water soluble thickening agents are prepared by copolymerizing about 1 to 5 mole percent of a vinyl benzyl ether having the formula ##STR1## and the balance to make 100 mole percent of acrylamide.

Abstract: Nonionic water soluble thickening agents are prepared by copolymerizing about 1 to 5 mole percent of a vinyl benzyl ether having the formula ##STR1## and the balance to make 100 mole percent of acrylamide.

Abstract: Finely divided mineral solids are pelletized by uniformly blending the solids with a binder consisting essentially of an aqueous film forming latex of a water insoluble polymer after which the blend is shaped and dried. The binder preferably also contains a water dispersible agglutinant, such as wheat flour or bentonite.

Abstract: Dispersions of finely divided particulate solids in an organic liquid in which the solids are insoluble are stabilized by the addition of a polymeric dispersant having a degree of polymerization of about 10 to 100. An example of the polymeric dispersant is an interpolymer of styrene, maleic anhydride and a vinyl benzyl ether of ethoxylated nonyl phenol.

Abstract: A novel polymer of a vinyl benzyl ether monomer and at least one other copolymerizable monomer, at least one of which other monomers has a carboxylic acid group, an anhydride group, a sulfate group, a sulfonate group or a hydroxyl group is disclosed. The vinyl benzyl ether monomer has the formula ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen or methyl, m is about 10 to 100 and Y is ##STR2## where R.sub.1 is an alkyl, aralkyl or alkaryl hydrophobic group of 10 to about 22 carbon atoms, R.sub.2 is an alkyl group of 1 to about 22 carbon atoms and R.sub.3 is hydrogen or an alkyl group of 1 to about 22 carbon atoms, provided R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 in combination have at least 10 carbon atoms.

Abstract: The improvement is obtained by converting at least about ten percent of the aliphatic hydroxyl groups present in the vinyl ester resin to ketal groups by reacting the hydroxyl group with an isopropenyl alkyl ether.

Abstract: Coatings may be cured by this process below 50.degree. F. and at temperatures as low as -10.degree. F. Suitable coating compositions comprise a solution in an inert organic solvent of (1) a polyaziridinyl adduct having more than one aziridinyl hydroxyalkyl group per molecule and (2) a coreactant which may be a dicarboxylic acid anhydride or a polyfunctional material having more than one anhydride, .[.oxirane.]. .Iadd.glycidyl.Iaddend., thiol, sulfonic acid or carboxylic group per molecule.