Abstract: A vessel has a sealable, hollow housing about a sample compartment, and the hollow portion contains a predetermined amount of a gas. It provides for heat transmission control. Accordingly, for an illustrative example, viscosity testing with a sensitive rotating viscometer and an oleaginous sample which is subjected to temperature control can be carried out with high reliability.

Abstract: Sensitive rotating viscometers which include a head, rotor and stator, for example, a Brookfield viscometer, and have their head supported by a hollow housing and their stator held in place by the same hollow housing are improved by an internally threaded wall in a lower portion of the hollow support member, having means to exert guiding pressure on a means to accept pressure of a correspondingly, externally threaded nut, the correspondingly, externally threaded nut for attachment within the internally threaded wall, which threaded nut has an extension which is perforately slotted, the nut extension having the means to accept pressure, so as to cause the nut extension to be directed inwardly by tightening of the nut within the internally threaded wall, so as to cause snug contact between the lower interior surface of the hollow support member and the exterior cylindrical surface of the stator. The device may be embodied as a separable collar housing and stator/tube collar with such an aforesaid nut.

Abstract: A resistively-heated furnace such as a graphite furnace is employed to atomize a sample for electron ionization and mass spectrometric analysis. Wide-ranging sample types such as biological tissue, semi-solid and nonhomogeneous materials, as well as bulk organic and inorganic chemicals, can be effectively and accurately analyzed with the instrument and instrumental method with little if any sample preparation.

Abstract: A golfer's square includes a ball position pointer or the like. The ball position pointer includes an elongate substantially parallel-sided pivotable rule with a pivot end and a pointer distal to the pivot end, and the ball position pointer or the like is rightly attached to an elongate substantially parallel-sided right rule attachable to the pivotable rule, with hook and loop material such as VELCRO (Reg. U.S. Pat. & Tm. Off.), to make the golfer's square. The golfer's square or the ball position pointer may be used separately in methods to assist the golfer align his stance properly. A protruding right angle edge may be provided on the right rule to faciliate orienting both rules prior to attaching same together.

Abstract: A golf swing training device includes a flat substantially rectangular base with two forwardly directable edges along which are located club head alignment aids, spikes for securing the base to a practice surface, a substantially rectangular hitting surface with two forwardly directable edges spaced apart a distance less than that between the two forwardly directable edges of the base, hook and loop fabric material for adjustably attaching the hitting surface to the base, and optionally, either a ball position pointer pivotably associatable with the base, which includes an elongate substantially parallel-sided pivotable rule with a pivot end and a pointer distal to the pivot end, or a golfer's square, which includes the ball position pointer or the like, an elongate substantially parallel-sided right rule rightly attachable to the pivotable rule, and hook and loop fabric material for attaching the rules. The device, or a suitable portion thereof, can be used to provide golf swing instruction.

Abstract: Feet and pedal portions of the human body are efficaciously conditioned against, and to circumvent and at least substantially preclude or alleviate, the discomfort and distress of offensive and frequently intolerable or at least disagreeable (including, without limitation thereto, the odiferous aspects thereof) sweating and perspiration by a particularized and carefully confined treatment with critically-concentrated aqueous solution(s) of formaldehyde (which, chemically, is CH.sub.2 O); consequentially followed by a uniquely-sensitive drying procedure to attain satisfactory, longeval cure or remedy of and relief and respite from possible sweaty conditions and circumstances and resultants thereof.

Abstract: An alpha-hydroxyl-alpha,alpha-di(inert-substituted)-gamma',delta'-yne ketone can be prepared by a procedure comprising contacting an acetylenic Grignard reagent with an alpha-hydroxyl-alpha,alpha-di(inert substituted)-alpha',beta'-ene ketone, and the alpha-hydroxyl-alpha,alpha-di(inert-substituted)-alpha',beta'-ene ketone can be prepared by a procedure comprising steps of contacting, first, an alkoxy allene with a lithium donating organic agent, second, product of the first step with a di(inert-substituted)ketone, and third, product of the second step with an acidic substance.

Abstract: Bismuth salts of phosphorylated and/or sulfonated saccharides are prepared from a corresponding metal salt reactant, a water soluble organic acid, and a bismuth substance. For example, a complex salt of bismuth hydroxide sucrose octasulfate can be prepared in high yield and good purity from potassium sucrose octasulfate, trichloroacetic acid, trifluoracetic acid or 4-methylbenzenesulfonic acid, and bismuth hydroxide. Corresponding hydrogen phosphorylated and/or sulfonated saccharides may be intermediate products.

Abstract: A single use syringe having an interacting piston and cylinder which cooperate to define a variable volume working space, the syringe includes a valve body located in the chamber so as to divide the chamber into a first and second sub-chamber, the valve body has valves which permit a liquid to be initially drawn into the syringe and then injected, but prevent a subsequent liquid being drawn into the syringe.

Abstract: Bismuth (phosph/sulf)ated saccharides are useful in ameliorating gastrointestinal disorders associated with Campylobacter-like organisms such as, for example, Campylobacter pylori. For example, compositions containing a complex salt of bismuth hydroxide sucrose octasulfate can be thus employed to treat Type B gastritis.

Abstract: The titled compositions are useful as pharmaceuticals in ameliorating disorders associated with gastric mucosal damage. For example, compositions containing a complex salt of bismuth hydroxide sucrose octasulfate can be thus employed.

Abstract: A combination of the titled compounds, appropriate salt(s) thereof, and/or the like, is employed for significantly alleviating hypertension and so forth.

Abstract: Included is a process to prepare a halogenated phosphorate-containing product comprising serially contacting (a) a triol with a phosphorus trihalide, (b) a halogenating agent and (c) an oxirane, under conditions sufficient to prepare the halogenated phosphorate-containing product. For example, 2-methyl-2-(hydroxymethyl)-1,3-propanediol, phosphorus trichloride, bromine and ethylene oxide can be employed to prepare a mixture of (2,2-bis(bromomethyl)propyl)(2-bromoethyl)(2-chloroethyl) phosphorate and (2-bromoethyl)bis(2-chloroethyl)phosphorate.

Abstract: Eneynols are prepared from terminal acetylenes and propargylic alcohols using a Cu.sup.+, Ag.sup.+ and/or Au.sup.+ halide catalyst.

Abstract: Multicomponent catalysts comprising copper, a metal selected from the group consisting of vanadium, chromium, manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel and zinc; and phosphate are employed for oxidizing an aromatic carboxylic acid to the corresponding phenol, e.g., benzoic acid to phenol.

Abstract: Allyl methyl ethers are transetherified with alcohols by use of a catalyst of a solid acid that contains no mercury or cuprous salt catalyst.

Abstract: Azetidines are prepared by decarboxylating a tetrahydro-1,3-oxazin-2-one.