Abstract: A reactive polyol composition useful in the preparation of high resilient polyurethane foams comprising a polyol and from 0.5% by weight to 5.0% by weight of a reactive diamine represented by the following formula: ##STR1## wherein R is H or alkyl of 1 to 4 carbon atoms and A and A' are NH.sub.2 or H with the provisos that in each ring either A or A' is NH.sub.2, not both and when A or A' is NH.sub.2 then the R attached to that carbon atom is H.

Abstract: Discrete thermoplastic fibers of fluorohydrocarbons and other self-bonding thermoplastic fibers are deployed as separators or diaphragms in electrochemical cells.

Abstract: An improved technique for the assembly of motors of the type having a printed armature that rotates in a flat, annular air gap between a magnet assembly and a magnetic flux plate, wherein the size of the air gap is accurately maintained at preselected value. In one embodiment of the invention, a precision shim, having a thickness the same as the preselected air gap size, is placed on a flat work surface, the magnet assembly is placed on the shim, and a motor housing is placed over the magnet assembly and shim. An epoxy fill in the housing is compressed as the housing is pressed down over the magnet assembly until a reference surface on the housing contacts the work surface. In an alternate embodiment of the invention, an inner flux plate is formed to include a plurality of tines, so shaped and sized that, when the inner flux plate and the magnet assembly are bonded together and inserted in the housing, the tines provide for a force fit in the housing.

Abstract: Manufacture of formaldehyde by oxidative dehydrogenation of methanol in the presence of a silver catalyst using methanol obtained from a condensate derived from the evaporation of aqueous reaction mixtures in the synthesis of urea resins and then treated with caustic soda solution under specific conditions of temperature, pressure, residence time and initial formaldehyde concentration. The formaldehyde obtained is a disinfectant, tanning agent, reducing agent and starting material for the manufacture of synthetic resins, adhesives and plastics.

Abstract: This invention relates to single-phase antifreeze or coolant concentrates comprising (1) an alcohol, (2) at least one of an amino siloxane, an amino silane or both an amino siloxane and an amino silane and a siloxane of the formula: ##EQU1## wherein R.sup.6 is a monovalent hydrocarbon group and e has a value of from 1 to 3, and (3) a hydroxybenzoic acid basic pH buffer preferably comprising para or ortho hydroxybenzoic acid or mixtures thereof. The concentrates are preferably used, upon dilution with about 30 to about 90 percent by weight of water based upon the weight of said concentrate, as antifreeze compositions for internal combustion engines. The alcohol is preferably ethylene glycol. The coolant compositions are effective in providing protection against corrosion of all metals and alloys used in industrial heat exchangers and are especially effective in inhibiting the corrosion of aluminum internal combustion engine and radiator components.

Abstract: Herbicides containing compositions of glycolic acid amides and other active ingredients.

Abstract: This invention relates to single-phase antifreeze and coolant concentrates comprising an alcohol, a metal salt of a carboxysiloxane and an organic basic PH buffer and corrosion inhibitor comprising a hydroxybenzoic acid or mixtures thereof. The concentrates are preferably used as coolants either undiluted or upon dilution with about 25 to about 90 percent by weight of water based upon the total weight of the concentrate. The alcohol is preferably ethylene glycol. The coolant compositions are effective in providing protection against corrosion of all metals and alloys used in industrial heat exchangers and are especially effective in inhibiting the corrosion of aluminum internal combustion engine and radiator components.

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of homopolymers and copolymers of .alpha.-monoolefins by polymerizing the monomer or monomers at relatively low temperatures under relatively low pressures by means of a Ziegler-Natta catalyst comprising (I) a titanium trichloride component and (II) an aluminum-alkyl component, wherein the titanium trichloride component (I) employed is obtained by exposing a conventional catalyst component consisting, or substantially consisting, of titanium trichloride, to a carbon monoxide atmosphere under specific conditions. Catalysts obtained from titanium trichloride components (I) which have been treated in this way exhibit a relatively long induction period.

Abstract: Polyurethane-urea elastomers with improved temperature characteristics, in particular improved low temperature properties, good mechanical properties over a large temperature range and excellent resistance to hydrolysis, are obtained by reacting(A) a prepolymer, possessing cycloaliphatic NCO groups, which has been prepared from essentially difunctional polyhydroxy compounds and organic diisocyanates possessing at least one NCO group bonded to a cycloaliphatic structure, these reactants being used so as to give a ratio of total hydroxyl: NCO groups of from 1:1.2 to 1:10, with(B) 3,3',5,5'-tetramethyl-4,4'-diamino-diphenylmethane, A and B being reacted in the molar ratio of from 1:0.8 to 1:1.2.

Abstract: Compositions based upon monoammonium phosphate and/or diammonium phosphate together with monoethanolamine and/or diethanolamine are used to provide a flame-retardant finish to synthetic fabrics or synthetic-cotton blends. Good flame-retardant protection is obtained with a dry add-on of approximately 13 to 15 percent, and the fabric retains a good hand.

Abstract: In the hydrogenation of polymers or copolymers synthesized from dienes, or containing diene hydrocarbons, which is as a rule carried out in an organic solvent using hydrogen in the presence of conventional complex hydrogenation catalysts based on metals of sub-group 8 of the periodic table of the elements and aluminum trialkyls it is important to have from 0.5 to 50 moles of water present in the hydrogenation zone per mole of the heavy metal component of the catalyst. The hydrogenation time can be substantially reduced by this measure.

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of secondary amines, especially fatty amines, from alcohols and ammonia over a hydrogenating catalyst in the presence of hydrogen, in which the reaction mixture essentially consists of alcohol and the amine formed, with only little ammonia, the latter being added progressively and the water formed in the reaction being removed progressively.

Abstract: A process for preventing the corrosion of metals in aqueous systems by means of low-foam corrosion inhibitors consisting of alkanolamine salts of maleamic acids.

Abstract: Improved toluene sulfonic acid derivatives are precipitated at a constant pH from an aqueous salt solution.

Abstract: Pure halonaphthalic acid anhydrides are prepared from haloacenaphthenes by oxidation with nitric acid in a mixture of aliphatic carboxylic acid, water and nitric acid in the presence of vanadate, with or without further metal salts, at an elevated temperature and the reaction product is isolated and subjected to an oxidative after-treatment with hypochlorite in aqueous solution at a pH of from 9 to 12 at an elevated temperature. The products are intermediates for the manufacture of optical brighteners.

Abstract: Solid cold bleach activator formulations for detergents which contain, as the active ingredient, a compound carrying acyl groups adsorbed on a three-dimensionally crosslinked water-insoluble inorganic compound having silicon-oxygen and/or aluminum-oxygen bonds.

Abstract: Azo dyes of the formula ##STR1## where A is a radical of a diazo component, B is a radical of a coupling component and R is hydrogen, halogen, a substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon radical, substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy or aroxy, or substituted amino. The dyes are eminently suitable for dyeing polyester and particularly for cellulose and blends of cellulose with polyesters.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of a 2,5-dimethylfuran-3-carboxylic acid ester from an .alpha.-acyloxypropionaldehyde and an acetoacetic acid ester in the presence of anhydrous iron-III chloride.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of a textile finish, the textile finish thus obtained and its use for the easy-care finishing of textiles containing, or consisting of, cellulose. The textile finish comprises an aqueous solution, of from 30 to 70 percent strength by weight, of a mixture of the conventionally formaldehyde-methylolated carbamates I and II ##STR1## where R.sup.1 is hydrogen or alkyl of 1 to 4 carbon atoms and R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are hydrogen, or one is hydrogen and the other is methyl, in the weight ratio I:II of from 12:1 to 1:20.The textile finish is prepared by reacting a glycol or an alkylglycol of the formulae III and IV ##STR2## where R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 have the above meanings, with urea at above 100.degree. C., so as to eliminate ammonia and give carbamates, and subsequent conventional methylolation with formaldehyde, wherein, in a first stage, the glycol or alkylglycol of the formula III is reacted to the extent of at least 50% with urea, in the absence of a catalyst, at from 130.

Abstract: The invention relates to aqueous coating agents, impregnating agents and adhesives in which the binder is a mixture of from 20 to 97% by weight of a cationic water-dispersible resin and from 3 to 80% by weight of a hydrocarbon resin, and/or a modified hydrocarbon resin, which per se is not water-dispersible. The coating agents, impregnating agents and adhesives may in particular be used for the cathodic electrocoating of metallic articles.