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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: The monomers of this invention have the formula ##EQU1## where R is H, methyl or phenyl, R.sub.1 is hydrogen or methyl, R.sub.2 is an alkylene radical of 2 to 4 carbons and R.sub.3 is an alkyl of 1 to about 6 carbon atoms or cycloalkyl radical of 3 to about 6 carbons.

Abstract: Formaldehyde is reacted with a polythiol to give novel methylol derivatives of the polythiol. The methylol derivatives are useful in curing polyepoxides.

Abstract: Nonionic water soluble thickening agents are prepared by copolymerizing about 1 to 5 mole percent of a vinyl benzyl ether having the formula ##SPC1##And the balance to make 100 mole percent of acrylamide.

Abstract: Formaldehyde is reacted with a polythiol to give novel methylol derivatives of the polythiol. The methylol derivatives are useful in curing polyepoxides.

Abstract: Straw mats useful for covering soil to prevent wind and rain erosion are made by randomly distributing straw into a layer and binding the stalks together at their points of contact with at least about 75 pounds per ton of straw of a water resistant adhesive comprising a polymer of an alkenyl aromatic monomer, an open chain conjugated diene and an unsaturated carboxylic monomer blended with a water soluble cellulose ether and with an organo sulfonate.

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.