Abstract: This invention provides a process for clarifying black wet process phosphoric acid that comprises admixing said black phosphoric acid with phosphoric acid rinse water in a weight ratio of rinse water to black acid between about 0.5 and about 5, letting the resultant mixture stand thereby obtaining settled material and supernatant clarified black phosphoric acid, and, when said weight ratio is below about 1 to 1.5, depending on the quality of the black acid being clarified, separating said clarified black phosphoric acid from said settled material.

Abstract: This invention provides a graft copolymer of at least one acrylic monomer and polystyrene, in which at least about 8 percent of the total weight of said graft copolymer is derived from acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, or both. It also provides anionic aqueous dispersions of such graft copolymers and coating compositions containing them.

Abstract: This invention provides a graft copolymer of at least one acrylic monomer and a random copolymer of a styrene and (meth)acrylonitrile, in which at least about 8 percent of the total weight of said graft copolymer is derived from acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, or both. It also provides anionic aqueous dispersions of such graft copolymers and coating compositions containing them.

Abstract: This invention provides a graft copolymer of at least one acrylic monomer and a random copolymer of a styrene and allyl alcohol, in which at least about 8 percent of the total weight of said graft copolymer is derived from acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, or both. It also provides anionic aqueous dispersions of such graft copolymers and coating compositions containing them.

Abstract: This invention provides a graft copolymer of at least one acrylic monomer and a random copolymer of a styrene and hydroxyethyl (meth)acrylate, in which at least about 8 percent of the total weight of said graft copolymer is derived from acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, or both. It also provides anionic aqueous dispersions of such graft copolymers and coating compositions containing them.

Abstract: Imidazole or substituted imidazole is adducted with acrylate ester, an epoxy, or an isocyanate followed by neutralization with lower fatty acid or alkylene or aromatic dicarboxylic acid. The product is a curing agent which is combined with an epoxy resin to form a powder coating.

Abstract: Shaped articles of a blend of PPMS and triallyl cyanurate or isocyanurate are provided. They are thermoformed and irradiated with sufficient ionizing radiation to effect sufficient cross-linking to render the shaped article resistant to fatty foods under microwave oven conditions. Claims are also directed to the method.

Abstract: There are provided microwaveable shaped articles of a laminate of heat resistant film and a substrate of foamed or unfoamed sheet of polymers or copolymers with a softening temperature below 190.degree. F., in which the heat resistant film is on the interior surface.

Abstract: A method for the recovery of oil from an oil-containing subterranean formation by waterflooding employing as an injection medium an aqueous solution of an anionic polymeric surfactant formed by reacting a polymer including succinic anhydride moieties with a primary amine to provide a polymeric reaction product in which at least 20 mol percent of the anhydride moieties have been converted, by reaction with said amine, to succinimide or succinamide groups. The polymeric anionic surfactants of the invention exhibit good physical and chemical stability, are shear stable, are effective in maintaining the salt stability of other surfactants (such as petroleum sulfonates) and also function as viscosifiers, even in the presence of significant concentrations of divalent metal ions.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method for determining flow patterns within a subterranean formation by injecting as a tracer a water soluble alkaline metal salt of inorganic or organic compounds having fluorine in the anion. The tracer compounds of the invention are identified by FNMR spectroscopy.

Abstract: Soybean crop yield can be increased by the foliar application of small amounts of trialkyl-2,4-dichlorobenzylammonium chlorides during certain stages of growth. Application to the Northern indeterminate varieties is at a rate of about 0.25-0.5 lb./acre during the 5-8 trifoliate leaf stage and application to the Southern determinate varieties is at a rate of about 0.5-0.75 lb./acre during the 10-11 trifoliate leaf stage.

Abstract: 3-Phenoxybenzyl hydroxamates of pyrethroid acids and derivatives are insecticidal.

Abstract: This application is directed to a process for preparing dialkyl phosphoric acid, preferably di(2-ethylhexyl) phosphoric acid. This latter material is used in uranium extraction from wet-process phosphoric acid as a kerosine solution along with a synergist, trioctylphosphine oxide.

Abstract: A two-component coating system comprises (A) a polyfunctional acid (dimer acid), low base strength amine (aniline), and high base strength amine (cyclohexylamine) adduct of a diglycidyl ether of bisphenol and (B) an organic diol reacted with 2 moles of a diisocyanate. The coating is particularly adapted for coating surfaces subject to high abrasion, e.g., railroad hopper cars.

Abstract: There is provided a blend of poly(p-methylstyrene) with a small amount of a polyfunctional monomer, such as trimethylolpropane trimethacrylate. The blend can be formed into shaped articles, such as food containers, which can be crosslinked by irradiation at low doses. Such irradiated articles are resistant to microwave oven conditions.

Abstract: This invention provides a blend of poly(p-methylstyrene) and a styrene-conjugated diolefin block copolymer containing between about 60 weight percent and about 80 weight percent styrene; the weight ratio of poly(p-methylstyrene: styrene-conjugated diolefin block copolymer being between about 70:30 and about 40:60.

Abstract: This invention is concerned with certain aryl amidoxime ethers of 3-phenoxybenzyl alcohol, which have insecticidal activity.

Abstract: Fine particle size CaCO.sub.3 is encapsulated with low density polyethylene (LDPE) in a fluid energy mill. Very thin extrusion oriented films (as low as 0.4 mil.) were made using the LDPE encapsulated CaCO.sub.3 at high concentrations of 32-61%. Such films are soft and have a dry "feel" and translucent appearance with slip and anti-block properties. They can be heat sealed, printed, and folded. The films can be used as paper and paper tissue substitutes.

Abstract: Insecticidal compounds having the formula: ##STR1## wherein R is halogen (Cl, F, Br), C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, NO.sub.2, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkylthio, cyano, CF.sub.3, CF.sub.3 O, CF.sub.3 S, ClF.sub.2, CHF.sub.2 O, or CHF.sub.2 S; n is 0, 1, or 2; R.sub.1 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, C.sub.3 -C.sub.6 cycloalkyl, or C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 alkenyl; and R.sup.2 is hydrogen, cyano, formyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 acyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 carboalkoxy, carbamoyl, N-C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkylcarbamoyl, or N,N-di C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkylcarbamoyl.

Abstract: This invention provides an A-B-A p-methylstyrene-conjugated diene-p-methylstyrene block copolymer containing, by weight of the block copolymer, about 10-40% p-methylstyrene and about 90-60% conjugated diene.