Abstract: A household electric appliance including a heating part and titanium oxide particles to be activated by heating, the heating part being a heating device inherently possessed by the household electric appliance and/or an additional heating device not inherently possessed by the household electric appliance.

Abstract: A conventional method of pyrolytically decomposing plastic to make low-molecular compounds is poor in efficiency of use of energy due to high heating temperatures (at least 600° C. and 800° C. at maximum). The invention provides that a functional powder is heated to a predetermined temperature and pieces of plastic to be disposed are caused to be contacted with the heated powder, the functional powder including a powder which does in an aqueous solution state show alkalinity, and a photo-catalyst effect powder.

Abstract: Titanium oxide catalyst has been given attention recently as oxidizing catalyst showing the catalytic effect at normal temperatures and has been put into practical use. The conventional ones are finely divided powder in nm unit in relation to catalytic efficiency, so that the powder is quite fine and it is very much hard to handle them. Granulating the finely divided powder for easy handling has been proposed but provides merely poor catalytic efficiency. The present invention provides shaped or granulated titanium oxide that is ensured of volume to some extent and keeps catalytic efficiency within the range of possibility.

Abstract: A household electric appliance including a heating part and titanium oxide particles to be activated by heating, the heating part being a heating device inherently possessed by the household electric appliance and/or an additional heating device not inherently possessed by the household electric appliance.

Abstract: A method for simply decomposing and disposing organic substances while preventing occurrence of toxic substances, which method is directed, firstly, to a technique wherein photocatalyst powder is applied from the upper side with liquefied organic substances, and the photocatalyst powder is heated to between 50 and 400° C., secondly to a technique wherein photocatalyst powder is contacted with gaseous organic substances while the photocatalyst powder being heated to between 50 and 400° C., thirdly to a technique wherein an organic substance to be decomposed is introduced, in a state of gas, liquid or solid, into a suspension of photocatalyst's finely divided particles and is heated in a range of temperatures between 50 and 100° C., and fourthly to a technique wherein organic substances are decomposed at two or more stages.

Abstract: A conventional method of pyrolytically decomposing plastic to make low-molecular compounds is poor in efficiency of use of energy due to high heating temperatures (at least 600° C. and 800° C. at maximum).

Abstract: The invention provides: an aggregate comprising a core made of an elastic material and a surfacing material adhered thereon by use of a resin; a manufacturing process of the novel aggregate comprising such steps as mixing 100 parts by weight of a core made of an elastic material with 0.1 to 20 parts by weight of a resin to cause the resin to stick uniformly on the surface of the core, and thereafter, contacting and mixing the core with 1 or more part by weight of a surfacing material having one-tenth or less average particle diameter of that of the core; and a resin mortar mixing the novel aggregate, a resin and preferably other additives.