Abstract: A process for decontaminating textiles contaminated by bacteria comprising washing said textiles with a detergent composition free of any peroxide bleaching agent, and then treating said textiles with a peroxide bleaching agent in an aqueous bath at a pH of between about 9 and 13, at a temperature of between about 40.degree. to 70.degree. C., in the presence of calcium, for a time sufficient to decontaminate said textiles; said calcium rendered soluble and uncomplexed and being present in an amount between about 0.001 to 1% by weight based on the weight of the bath with the source of calcium being selected from calcium oxide, calcium hydroxide, or a calcium salt whose anion is inert with respect to the peroxide bleaching agent and whose dissociation constant is above about 0.01.

Abstract: Colorless, or but very faintly tinted N-(dichlorophosphoryl)trichlorophosphazene [P.sub.2 NOCl.sub.5 ] is prepared by reacting phosphorus pentachloride with ammonium chloride in the presence of POCl.sub.3, and then treating the resulting medium of reaction, containing P.sub.3 NCl.sub.12, with SO.sub.2, and wherein the temperature of the medium of reaction is maintained at a value of at most about 30.degree. C.

Abstract: The invention relates to fluoroacrylic monomers of formula: ##STR1## in which R.sub.f denotes a perfluoroalkyl radical, R is hydrogen or a methyl radical, R' denotes an alkyl or cycloalkyl radical, or --NR'-- denotes a 1, 4-piperazinylene radical, W and Z denote divalent connecting groups, Q is oxygen or sulphur or an --NR"-- group, R" denoting hydrogen an alkyl radical, and A is a C.sub.2 or C.sub.3 alkylene group. The polymers (homo- or copolymers) derived from these monomers may be used for the water-repellency and oil-repellency treatment of various substrates, particularly leather.

Abstract: A process for bleaching household laundry in a wash cycle, comprising a first stage in said cycle in which the laundry is washed in the presence of a detergent composition free of any peroxide-type bleaching agent at a temperature between about 40.degree. to 60.degree. C. and a pH between about 8 and 12, rinsing said laundry, and subjecting said laundry to a second stage in said cycle in which said rinsed laundry is washed in the absence of any detergent and in the presence of at least one peroxide-type bleaching agent and an activator at a temperature between about 40.degree. to 60.degree. C. and a pH between about 9 and 13.

Abstract: Thermoplastic hot-melt adhesive granulate for melt-coating, the granulate particles of which have a coating of a film of paraffin with a melting point of 45.degree. C. to 85.degree. C. in an amount of up to 5% by weight, based on the polymer. The antioxidant is present in the film coating. The invention also relates to a method for the manufacture of this hot-melt adhesive granulate and to its used as a hot-melt coating for heat sealing.

Abstract: A process for separating dichlorotoluene isomers from a mixture containing at least two dichlorotoluene isomers comprising(a) passing said mixture containing dichlorotoluene isomers through a mordenite having the following composition; in molar ratios:a H.sub.2 O: b M.sub.2/n O: Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 : (10-400 SiO.sub.2)in which M is hydrogen or at least one cation selected from an alkali metal or an alkaline-earth metal with the exception of cesium and rubidium, n is the valence of M, 0.7.ltoreq.a+b.ltoreq.1.1, and 0.ltoreq.b.ltoreq.0.2,(b) separating the non-adsorbed dichlorotoluenes from said mordenite,(c) contacting said mordenite containing the adsorbed isomers with a desorbent capable of separating said isomers from said mordenite, and(d) separating the desorbed isomers from the desorbent.

Abstract: The higher chloromethanes, i.e., CH.sub.2 Cl.sub.2, CHCl.sub.3 and CCl.sub.4, are simultaneously produced by chlorinating methyl chloride with chlorine in a first reaction zone A, chlorinating at least one of the higher chloromethanes CH.sub.2 Cl.sub.2 and CHCl.sub.3 with chlorine in a parallel second reaction zone B, combining the reaction products from said first and said second reaction zones A and B, separating higher chloromethanes from said combined reaction products, and recycling at least one of said separated higher chloromethanes CH.sub.2 Cl.sub.2 and CHCl.sub.3 as chlorination feed to said second reaction zone B.

Abstract: Solid particles are coated with a uniform and continuous polyamide layer by immersion in a reaction medium capable of forming polyamides by anionic polymerization in solution.

Abstract: The present invention comprises composite metallic containers comprising a plurality of metallic elements assembled by welding, said container having mating end elements having abutting flanges forming joints and end walls extending away from said flanges at an angle; the ends of each flange being bevelled toward the interior of each said joint at an angle between about 45.degree. to 60.degree.

Abstract: The invention relates to a gas phase process for the manufacture of chloropentafluoroethane by the action of hydrofluoric acid on dichlorotetrafluoroethane in the presence of a catalyst, the said catalyst being prepared by reacting, in a gaseous phase, an alumina in which the sodium oxide content is below 300 ppm and the volume of the pores having a radius equal to 40 angstroms or above is greater than 0.7 cm.sup.3 /g, with hydrofluoric acid or with a mixture of hydrofluoric acid and of air, nitrogen or a fluorinated compound.

Abstract: Adhesive compositions with thermoreversible crosslinking resulting from the reaction of a divinyl ether having the formula CH.sub.2 .dbd.CH--O--R--O--CH.dbd.CH.sub.2, R being aliphatic, armomatic or cycloaliphatic, with a copolymer resulting from the copolymerization of an olefin with an ethylenically unsaturated monocarboxylic acid and, optionally, an ester of an ethylenically unsaturated monocarboxylic acid, the proportion being 0.1 to 5 percent by weight of the divinyl ether to 99.9 to 95 percent by weight of the copolymer.

Abstract: Bonded, coherent fibrous web substrates well adopted as cathodic elements for electrolytic cells and advantageously incorporating an electrocatalytic agent, include a web matrix which comprises a plurality of fibers, at least a portion of which comprising electrically conductive fibers, e.g., carbon fibers, said plurality of fibers being coherently bonded together with a fluorine-containing polymer, and said web substrate having a resistivity of up to about 0.4 .OMEGA..cm.

Abstract: Novel perchlorofluorinated hydrocarbons of the general formula:Cl-(CFX-CF.sub.2).sub.m -CCl.sub.2 -(CF.sub.2 -CFY).sub.n -Clwherein X and Y represent chlorine or fluorine atoms, and m and n are integers from 1 to 5, together with a process for preparing such perchlorofluorocarbons by reacting chlorotrifluoroethylene or tetrafluoroethylene with carbon tetrachloride or a telomer having the formula Cl.sub.3 C-(CF.sub.2 -CFX).sub.m -Cl in a polar solvent at a temperature of at least 120.degree. C. in the presence of copper or a copper salt.

Abstract: The process for the manufacture of infusible and insoluble polyamide-imide powders of spheroidal form comprising first reacting at least one lactam in solution with a polyamide generator in the presence of an anionic polymerization catalyst and then adding to the polymerization reaction a polyisocyanate in an amount sufficient to first activate said polymerization and then to react with the polyamide chains being formed and to bridge the same; the resultant product; and lubricants comprising a lubricating fluid and the resultant product.

Abstract: Polymers resulting from the association of two reactive components having a low melt viscosity, characterized in that one of the components is a polypropylene modified by grafting an unsaturated monomer bearing an acid anhydride group and the other is a compound R posessing at least two groups which are reactive towards this anhydride group.Uses in the manufacture of moulded articles by the reaction-injection-moulding technique, or in the manufacture of composite materials.Uses as coatings for metallic articles.

Abstract: A two-stage hydrogen peroxide bleaching treatment of chemical pulp at a temperature of about 90.degree.-100.degree. C. comprising subjecting said pulp in a first stage to hydrogen peroxide and to at least about 3 grams/1 of bath of a metal ion sequestering agent selected from nitrogen containing sequestering agents or agents derived from polyphosphoric or polyphosphonic acids at a pH of 8.5 to 9.5 so that hydrogen peroxide of about 0.3 to 2.5 wt. % relative to dry pulp weight is consumed, and subjecting said pulp in a second stage to hydrogen peroxide and to at least about 3.times.10.sup.-3 gram-atoms per 100 grams of dry pulp of magnesium in the form of magnesium hydroxide and a pH of at least about 11 so that about 2 to 5 weight % of hydrogen peroxide per weight of dry pulp is consumed during the two stages.

Abstract: The process for the extrusion of an expandable plastic composition comprising extruding the composition to an at least partially expanded state through a cross section of die with an area essentially the same as that of the entrance to the cooling fixture which defines the shape and dimensions in the final profile to be produced and essentially having the shape of the latter, by leaving a space empty of material within the profile in the course of extrusion through said cross section and then confining the composition thus extruded immediately at the exit from said die cross section and essentially along the extension of the extrusion axis, within a cooled and elongated shaping space, open at both ends along said extrusion axis and having an exit cross section identical to that of the profile to be obtained, the improvement comprising separating said cooled and elongated shaping space into at least two parts separated from one another by a free space, with the first said part not exceeding a few centimeters i

Abstract: An aqueous coating solution is sprayed into the interior of the reactor. After the aqueous coating solution has been sprayed, steam is injected and condensed within the reactor. Upon polymerizing a vinyl chloride-base monomer composition in the reactor after having been treated, the formation of deposits of polymer on the internal surfaces of the reactor is substantially reduced and even suppressed.

Abstract: A vertical autoclave for carrying out operations involving a medium having a liquid phase and/or a solid phase includes:(a) a concave autoclave bottom;(b) a shaft along a vertical axis of said autoclave, said shaft passing through said bottom of said autoclave; and(c) stirrers for driving said medium with a centripetal motion about said concave autoclave bottom.

Abstract: Adhesive composition consisting essentially of polypropylene modified by grafting with an acid anhydride to further reacted with a compound bearing at least two groups capable of reacting with the anhydride preferrably a polyol or a polyamine.