Abstract: A thermo-mechanical process for producing aluminum or other metals from aluminium or metal compounds, is described, whereby aluminum oxide or similar aluminium compounds or similar other metal compounds, are heated by friction generated by mechanical forces from a rotating and/or agitating means within a process chamber together with either free water or waterforming constituents in the aluminium-or-metal compounds and a hydrogen- and carbon delivering material such as oil or natural gas, such as methane, and carbon in such a manner that material in the reactor chamber behaves like a hot mechanical fluidized bed whereby the water can be split into hydroxyl and hydrogen radicals making hydrogen radicals react, with the oxygen in the hot and now unstable aluminum or metal compound and thus releasing aluminum or metal atoms, and the hydroxyl radical reacting back to water and if carbon is used, the surplus of oxygen reacting with carbon to CO or CO.sub.2.

Abstract: An artificial gland for implantation in the human body and comprising a medicament reservoir intended for being filled with a medicament solution by the aid of a syringe said reservoir, via a passage, being connected with a casing the wall of which casing is completely or partly comprised of a semipermeable membrane that causes changes of pressure by osmosis for delivery of a medicament.

Abstract: A process for increasing the degree of extraction of oil or other volatile liquids in oil reservoirs on land or at sea, by making the formations in said reservoir vibrate as close to the natural frequency of said formations as possible, so that the binding forces between formations and oil are degraded and oil is, thus, more easily recovered from the formations. Furthermore, the pressure in said reservoir is maintained by evaporating some oil and water in the reservoir, due to the fact that heating is achieved both as a consequence of said vibrations, and by the aid of electrical high frequeny pulses causing the reservoir to perform like an electrode furnace.