Abstract: Method for producing massive unicrystalline R-plane alpha alumina of circular cross-section from an alumina melt by controlled rotation of the seed rod upon which the alpha alumina is solidified and crystallized.
Abstract: Addition of strontium to silicon or ferrosilicon using a mixture containing carbon and at least one material selected from the group of strontium oxide, and strontium carbonate and strontium sulfate.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 31, 1975
Date of Patent:
April 12, 1977
Assignee:
Union Carbide Corporation
Inventors:
James Herbert Downing, James Enoch Wells, III
Abstract: The present invention is a process for making shaped, dense, hard, fine grain tool quality tungsten carbide by the interaction of tungsten, carbon and cobalt during a single heat treatment to form WC + Co compositions. The interaction occurs in situ without the aid of applied pressure. The interaction produces wares of high density with excellent mechanical and cutting properties.
Abstract: Oxidation of ferrophosphorous in an oxidizing environment wherein molten ferrophosphorous is continuously contacted with a surface of oxidized ferrophosphorous.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 17, 1975
Date of Patent:
December 21, 1976
Assignee:
Union Carbide Corporation
Inventors:
Donald J. Hansen, William B. De Atley, Robert L. Ripley, George F. Curtis
Abstract: Assaying of fluids to determine the level of a substance in a fluid sample such as blood serum involving the reacting of fluid samples with one or more reagents and centrifugally separating reaction constituents and measuring a property of a reaction constituents.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 10, 1974
Date of Patent:
April 27, 1976
Assignee:
Union Carbide Corporation
Inventors:
Stephen I. Shapiro, Gerhard Ertingshausen