Abstract: New zwitterionic polymers are obtained as the copolymerization product of:from about 30 to about 70 mole % of monomers containing quaternary ammonium groups and corresponding to the following formula:R.sup.1 --CH.dbd.CR.sup.2 --CO--Z--(C.sub.n H.sub.2n)--N.sup.(+) (CH.sub.3).sub.3 ;about 10 to about 30 mole % of monomeric carboxylic acids corresponding to the following formula:R.sup.3 --CH.dbd.CR.sup.4 --COOH;about 10 to about 30 mole % of monomeric esters corresponding to the following formula:R.sup.5 --CH.dbd.CR.sup.6 --COOR.sup.7 ;and, optionally,0 to about 40 mole % of monomers containing tertiary amino groups and corresponding to the following formula:R.sup.8 --CH.dbd.CR.sup.9 --CO--Z--(C.sub.n H.sub.2n)--NR.sup.10 R.sup.11.The zwitterionic polymers are suitable for the production of hair-washing and hair-care preparations which have a long-lasting hair-softening effect.

Abstract: In a cleaning system for toilet bowls comprising a cleaning container for accommodating a cleaning preparation which is designed to be mounted on the rim of the toilet bowl and which is provided with correspondingly arranged openings for part of the flushing water to pass through, the invention enables the cleaning container to be filled with granular active substance without spillage and/or granulate to come into contact with the skin. In addition, the cleaning container is designed so that in the in-use position, its contents are substantially inaccessible to young children despite the refill facility.

Abstract: An aqueous drilling fluid having present in an amount sufficient to disperse the fluid and to provide resistance to high temperatures and solids contamination of the drilling fluid, at least one salt of a polymer or copolymer of acrylic or methacrylic acid with alkanolamine, alkylamine, mixtures of alkanolamine and alkylamine, mixtures of lithium and alkanolamine, mixtures of lithium and alkylamine and mixtures of lithium, alkanolamine and alkylamine, the polymer having a weight average molecular weight of between about 2,000 and about 15,000 and a pH of from about 6 to about 8.5 and where mixtures of lithium and alkanolamine, lithium and alkylamine or mixtures of lithium, alkanolamine and alkylamine are used, the amount of lithium is present to give from about 30% to about 70% of the desired neutralization of the polymer and the alkanolamine and/or alkylamine is present to give from about 70% to about 30% of the desired neutralization of the polymer.

Abstract: Alkyl sulfosuccinates based on propoxylated and propoxylated and ethoxylated fatty alcohols as flotation collectors for non-sulfidic ores and to a process for the separation of non-sulfidic ores by flotation in which the alkyl sulfosuccinates used contain one or two identical or different, straight-chain and/or branched-chain, saturated or unsaturated alkyl radicals based on propoxylated or propoxylated and ethoxylated C.sub.8 -C.sub.22 fatty alcohols.

Abstract: An after-wash textile treatment preparation containing natural and/or synthetic layer silicates as the softening component in combination with an acidic compound, a disintegrating agent, a filler or a carrier material and, optionally, a binder and fatty acid ester. The preparation is used in the rinse cycle of a laundry washing process.

Abstract: An aqueous acidic treating solution and process for forming a chromium-containing passivate coating on the surface of zinc or zinc-aluminum alloys to enhance bare corrosion resistance and inhibit discoloration thereof upon exposure to ambient environments. The treating solution contains as its essential constituents, chromium ions, nitrate ions, phosphate ions.

Abstract: Thermoplastic polyamide mixtures of polyamides based on dimerized fatty acids in which at least one polyamide contains as an incorporated unit (a) a C.sub.2 -C.sub.10 aliphatic diamine capable of diamide formation, which is N-substituted with C.sub.10 -C.sub.25 -alkyl, and (b) a C.sub.2 -C.sub.40 -diamine capable of diamide formation comprising a diprimary amine, a heterocyclic amine, or a diomine containing one or two secondary amino groups and which is N-C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 -alkyl-substituted on at least one side.

Abstract: A preparation containing hard wax, solid paraffin, microcrystalline wax, linseed oil and an aminofunctional silicone oil in an organic solvent is used for the care of floors of porous inorganic materials, particularly unglazed clay tiles. The preparation affords the floors excellent protection against aqueous and oily soil.

Abstract: An improved method of brown stock washing is disclosed. A nonionic surfactant in combination with a polyelectrolyte dispersant, and preferably a solvent, are utilized in the washing step in the pulping of virgin cellulosic fiber. The methods of the invention provide for the enhanced removal and recovery of cooking chemicals and organics from the pulp.

Abstract: A process for the production of catalyst materials stabilized in the active state, comprising activating the catalyst starting materials in a reducing gas atmosphere, impregnating the activated catalysts with the melt of a solid inert to the active catlayst, and solidifying the melt impregnation by cooling. The particulate catalyst starting material is passed under the reaction conditions of the activation stage through a reaction zone filled with the reducing gas atmosphere which is in direct contact with the melt of the impregnating solid; the activated catalyst material is introduced into this melt; subsequently removed therefrom; and the molten solid left to solidify. If desired, the impregnated catalyst material may be mechanically size-reduced.

Abstract: An improved method for drawing iron or steel rod subjects the rod to a titanium based conditioning agent prior to application of a dry powder soap lubricant and subsequent to descaling and any phosphating step.

Abstract: New anionic derivatives of mono and polyglycosides which are surface-active agents are described which anionic derivatives have the general formula ##STR1## wherein G is a glycosyl moiety which is derived from a reducing sugar selected from the group consisting of fructose, glucose, mannose, galactose, talose, gulose, allose, altrose, idose, arabinose, xylose, lyxose, ribose or mixtures thereof,R is an alkyl group substituted at the reducing carbon of the reducing sugar from which the glycosyl moiety, G, is derived, said alkyl group being straight chain or branched chain having 6 to 30 carbon atoms,x=1 to 10,at least one of the hydroxyl groups of at least one of the glycosyl moieties (or of a hydroxyalkyl group attached directly or indirectly to a hydroxyl group of said glycosyl moiety) has a Z group substituted in place of said hydroxyl group, Z is a substituent which is ##STR2## O(CH.sub.2).sub.p CO.sub.2 M, OSO.sub.3 M, O(CH.sub.2).sub.p So3.sub.m and mixtures thereof andR.sub.1 =(CH.sub.2).sub.2 CO.sub.

Abstract: In the gas-phase hydrogenation of free fatty acids and mixtures thereof with fatty acid esters to fatty alcohols on particulate fixed-bed catalysts based on metal oxides in the presence of an at least 50-fold excess of recycled hydrogen at temperatures of 250.degree. to 350.degree. C. and under pressues of from 200 to 500 bars, acid-sensitive catalysts based on zinc oxide are used and the corrosive effect of the starting materials containing free fatty acids on the catalyst is at least largely prevented by increasing the process temperature within the range indicated and/or by reducing the ratio of starting material to recycled hydrogen.

Abstract: Substantially builder-free fine fabric detergent compositions are provided which comprise an aqueous solution containing from about 10 to about 70 weight percent of a surfactant mixture consisting essentially of a 1:3 to about 10:1 weight ratio combination of a glycoside surfactant and an antistatic quaternary ammonium surfactant.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of one or more ethoxylated fatty amines corresponding to the following general formula ##STR1## in which n is an integer of from 2 to 30,R.sup.1 is a C.sub.8-24 straight-chain or branched-chain, saturated or unsaturated alkyl, andR.sup.2 has the formula--(CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --O).sub.m --H (II)or the formula ##STR2## where R.sup.3 is a C.sub.2-6 alkylene, andm, x, and y are each an integer of from 0 to 30, as solution promoters in detergent concentrates for detergent solutions.

Abstract: Hair-treatment preparations containing as additive at least one surface-active phosphonic acid corresponding to general formula I, II or III below ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 represents a C.sub.5 -C.sub.21 alkyl, R.sup.2 represents hydrogen or --PO.sub.3 H.sub.2, and R.sup.3 represents hydrogen, hydroxyl, or, if R.sup.2 is --PO.sub.3 H.sub.2, --NH.sub.2, and R.sup.4 represents hydrogen or a lower alkyl group containing from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or a water-soluble salt thereof, improved the wet combability of hair and reduce its tendency to develop static charges. Octane-1-phosphonic acid, decane-1-phosphonic acid and dodecane-1-phosphonic acid or their salts are particularly effective. The phophonic acids are used in quantities of from 0.05 to 10% by weight, and preferably in quantities of from 0.1 to 2.0% by weight together with anionic tensides.

Abstract: Powder-form lubricant additives for water-based drilling fluids which contain from 95 to 30% by weight, based on the total weight of the powder, of highly disperse silicas, from 5 to 70% by weight, based on the total weight of the powder, of one or more fatty acid alkyl esters corresponding to the following general formula.R.sup.1 COOR.sup.2 (I)in which R.sup.1 is a straight-chain or branched, saturated or mono- or polyunsaturated C.sub.9 -C.sub.21 alkyl or alkenyl radical and R.sup.2 is a straight-chain or branched C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 alkyl radical, and/or polyesters obtainable by reaction of di-, oligo- or poly-hydroxy compounds with carboxylic acids and/or distillation residues from the transesterification of native fatty acid esters and, optionally, other additives known for lubricating purposes in quantities of from 0 to 20% by weight, based on the total weight of the powder, and to the use of these powder-form additives in drilling fluids for oil well and mine drilling in quantities of from 0.

Abstract: N-substituted polyglycidyl urazole compounds of the general formula ##STR1## in which the radicals R represent a glycidyl radical corresponding to the following general formula ##STR2## wherein R.sub.1 represents hydrogen or an alkyl radical containing from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or two of the radicals R represent a glycidyl radical of general formula II while the remaining radical R is a radical Z, other than said glycidyl radical, containing carbon, hydrogen and, optionally, heteroatoms, are useful in the treatment of various forms of leukemia.

Abstract: A method for imparting hydrophobicity and softness to leather and skins comprising treatment thereof with at least one sulfosuccinic acid monoamide of the formula ##STR1## wherein R and R' are, independently, H or a C.sub.12-24 alkyl, andone of x or y is SO.sub.2 and the other is H; either alone, or in sequence or simultaneously with at least one other hydrophobicizing agent, at least one impregnating agent, or at least one neutral oil; as well as a composition having the above ingredients.

Abstract: Sulfited fats prepared by oxidation of fats with oxygen-containing gas mixtures and simultaneous or subsequent sulfitation using alkali and/or ammonium hydrogen sulfites, wherein the fats used are mixtures containing(A) fats having iodine numbers below about 100 and(B) fatty acid esters having iodine numbers of from about 60 to about 100 and containing from 12 to 24 carbon atoms in the linear or branched, natural and/or synthetic fatty acid residue and from 1 to 5 carbon atoms in the monofunctional alcohol residue,the ratio by weight of (A) to (B) being from about 9:1 to about 1:4.