Abstract: A novel pyrazole derivative represented by the formula [I]: ##STR1## wherein X and Y are defined in the specification, which has herbicidal activity, is disclosed. A process for preparing the pyrazole derivative of the formula [I] is also disclosed. A herbicide containing as an active ingredient the pyrazole derivative of the formula [I] is further disclosed as is a method for using the herbicide.

Abstract: A powdered or granular solid pesticide composition comprising methyl isothiocyanate supported on natural or synthetic faujasite type zeolite particles having an effective micro-pore diameter of 3.5 to 6 angstrom. This pesticide composition can effectively control various plant parasitic nematodes and noxious soil organisms and can remarkably facilitate application work.

Abstract: An improved battery having anode means, cathode means and an electrolyte is provided, wherein the electrolyte comprises a compound capable of being ionized into at least one dopant selected from anion dopants and cation dopants and at least one of the anode means and cathode means comprises as its electrode-active material an acetylene high polymer having a fibrous microcrystalline (fibril) structure and a bulk density of 0.7 to 1.2 g/cc, which is dopable to a more highly oxidized state by the anion dopant or an electron-accepting compound consisting of the molecule of the anion or dopable to a more lowly oxidized state by the cation dopant or an electron-donating compound consisting of the molecule of the cation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a substrate for a printed circuit exhibiting particularly an excellent electrical insulating property, as well as an excellent heat dissipating property and heat resistance.In accordance with the present invention, a substrate of a printed circuit comprises a metallic plate, and further comprising on at least one surface of said metallic plate, a synthetic resin layer containing an inorganic filler, a heat-resistant resin film, and a synthetic resin layer, which are successively laminated on said metallic plate.A substrate of the present invention also comprises a metallic plate, at least two synthetic resin layers containing an inorganic filler, a heat-resistant resin film which is laminated between said at least two synthetic resin layers.

Abstract: A process for producing a thermoplastic elastomer in the presence of a Ziegler catalyst which comprises a first step of forming polypropylene and then a second step of forming an ethylene/propylene random copolymer, characterized in that(a) the catalyst is used such that the total amount of the polymer formed is at least 50 kg per gram of titanium metal in the catalyst,(b) a hydrocarbon having 3 or 4 carbon atoms is used as a slurry polymerization solvent,(c) the solvent phase of the slurry is evaporated and separated without bringing the resulting polymer into contact with alcohols and/or hydrocarbons having at least 5 carbon atoms,(d) the polymerization temperature in the second step is adjusted to not more than 50.degree. C.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process for producing an organic semiconductor. More specifically, it relates to a process for producing an electrically conductive acetylene high polymer, which comprises doping an acetylene high polymer having a fibrous microcrystalline (fibril) structure with a specified electron acceptor compound having low toxicity, to obtain an electrically conductive acetylene high polymer having an increased electrical conductivity, and flexibility and heat stability. The electrically conductive acetylene high polymer obtained by the process of this invention is a P-type semiconductor whose electrical conductivity can be freely controlled within the range of 10.sup.-9 to 10.sup.3 ohm.sup.-1, cm.sup.-1, and is useful as a material for photoelectric converter elements such as solar cells and photosensers, and as P-N hetero junction elements.

Abstract: Alkaline protease API-21 having the following physicochemical properties:(1) Activity: Hydrolyzes casein under alkaline conditions, optimum pH range is 10 to 11, and has optimum temperature range for activity of 45.degree. C. to 50.degree. C.;(2) Stability: No decrease in enzymatic activity observed up to 40.degree. C. upon heating without substrated for 10 minutes at a pH of 10, but 90% or more decrease of enzymatic activity observed at 50.degree. C. for 10 minutes at a pH of 10. Deactivation occurs at 50.degree. C. for 10 minutes at a pH of 8 and complete deactivation substantially occurs at 60.degree. C. for 10 minutes at a pH of 8. The protease is stable under alkaline conditions, especially within a pH range of 7 to 11.5, and is stable against freezing and freeze-drying; and(3) Enzyme molecule: The protease is protein having a molecular weight of about 22000 as estimated by a gel filtration method, an isoelectric point of 7.

Abstract: A method for treating an electrolytic diaphragm formed by adhering asbestos fibers to the surface of an electrolytic cathode made of a wire mesh or porous plate, which comprises permeating water glass into the diaphragm, then permeating a chloroprene latex into the water glass-treated diaphragm, and drying the treated diaphragm under heat.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the construction of a core member or a partition plate and method for manufacturing the same by use of blow molding means, wherein a hollow plate member formed of a synthetic resin is used for a seat core member and a partition plate for vehicles such as automobiles, the decrease in strength resulting from the hollow structure is prevented by reinforcing members molded at the same time when the body composed of a plate member is blow molded, the core member or the partition plate being strengthened by the body and the reinforcing members within the body.

Abstract: An improved diaphragm for electrolysis, said diaphragm being composed of a fibrous base material of asbestos or a mixture of asbestos and fluorine-containing fibers and existing in the interstices of said base material, a water-swellable micaceous mineral represented by the following general formulaW.sub.1/3-1.0 [X.sub.2.5-3.0 (Z.sub.4 O.sub.10)F.sub.2 ]wherein W is Na and/or Li, X is Li and/or Mg, Z is Si and/or Al, O is oxygen and F is fluorine. The diaphragm can be produced by dispersing a fibrous base material of asbestos or a mixture of asbestos and fluorine-containing fibers in an aqueous slurry of the water-swellable micaceous mineral being partly in the form of a sol or in a mixture of it with an aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide and/or sodium chloride, forming the dispersion into a sheet, and drying the sheet.

Abstract: A 2,3-dichloro-N-difluoromethoxyphenylmaleimide of the formula (I): ##STR1## is useful as an agricultural and horticultural fungicide, particularly for fruit trees.

Abstract: In the thermal cracking of or heating of hydrocarbons, for example naphtha, a carbonization reaction incidentally takes place due to the fact that Ni, Fe and Co contained in, for example, the conduits of the thermal cracking apparatus have a catalytically carbonizing action. The aim of the present invention is to effectively suppress carbon deposition promoted by these elements, to provide for the incorporation of an inhibitor element, e.g. Li, Na, Ba, Be, Ca, Mg or their oxides, into the heat-resistant alloy, and to form on the surface of this alloy a carbon deposition suppressing layer which comprises an inhibitor element.

Abstract: Process for producing easily moldable composition of an acetylene high polymer by polymerizing acetylene using a catalyst system composed of (A) a transition metal compound containing at least one transition metal from Groups IVa, Va, VIa and VIII and (B) an organometallic compound containing at least one metal from Groups IIa, IIb, IIIb and IVb, the polymerization being carried out in a polymerization solvent containing the transition metal compound in a concentration of 0.0001 to 0.1 mole/liter to form a gel-like material consisting of an acetylene high polymer having a fibrous microcrystalline structure and the polymerization solvent.

Abstract: In a composite material of metal and ceramic, the excellent properties of metal and ceramic are combined, so that, when the composite material is flame sprayed, a flame sprayed coating having good mechanical strength and heat- corrosion- and wear-resistance can be obtained. Conventional composite material, in which metal and ceramic are merely mixed or mechanically bonded with one another, cannot provide a plasma sprayed coating having a high bonding strength to the substrate. The present invention improves the plasma spraying composite material by means of a chemical bond between the metal and ceramic parts. The chemical bond may be a compound-or solid solution formation between these parts. The core of the composite material is ZrO.sub.2 and the coating is a metal, metallic compound or combination thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a refining agent used for deoxidation, desulfurization, and dephosphorization of molten steel by a ladle refining, as well as methods for producing such a refining agent. The general practice in ladle refining is to use for the refining agent both so-called flux, which is mainly composed of CaO, and a Ca-based metallic additive.In conventional practice, the flux and the Ca-based metallic additive are added to the molten steel separately.It is an object of the present invention to provide a refining agent, wherein the flux and metallic CaO component act highly effectively on the molten metal.A refining agent for metal according to the present invention essentially consists of: a Ca alloy, which essentially consists of Ca and at least one element selected from the group consisting of Al and Si, and a flux mainly composed of CaO and Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, the Ca-alloy phases and the flux phases being integrally bonded to one another.

Abstract: A binder composition for paper-coating materials having excellent binder performance is disclosed, which comprises an aqueous solution of one or more water-soluble copolymers of (A) 50 to 95 wt % of acryl- or methacrylamide and (B) 5 to 50 wt % of at least one acrylic- or methacrylic acid derivative such as alkyl or hydroxyalkyl esters, N-methylolamides and nitriles.

Abstract: A rhodium catalyst containing supported rhodium metal omnipresent in the surface layer or in the neighborhood of the surface layer of the particles of a silica or titania type support is presented. This catalyst is prepared by a method (i) in which the support is dipped into an aqueous solution of a water-soluble rhodium salt previously adjusted to pH of at least 10, followed by the drying and reduction, or a method (ii) in which the support is first dipped into an aqueous solution of a water-soluble rhodium salt having a pH of 1 or less and, then, dipped into an aqueous alkaline solution containing an alkaline compound in an amount sufficient to neutralize the acid impregnated in the support and also sufficient to convert the rhodium salt impregnated in the support into rhodium hydroxide, followed by the drying and reduction.

Abstract: Process for producing a porous acetylene high polymer by lyophilizing a gel-like composition composed of 1 part by weight of an acetylene high polymer having a fibril structure and 1 to 1,000 parts by weight of an organic solvent.

Abstract: A process for the production of ethylenic polymers, characterized in that ethylene is homopolymerized or ethylene with .alpha.-olefin is copolymerized by the use of a catalyst system comprising:(A) a solid catalyst component prepared by treating (1) a solid ingredient containing at least a magnesium atom, a halogen atom and a transition metal element with (2) at least a cyclic organic compound; and(B) an organoaluminum compound; or(A) the solid catalyst component;(B) the organoaluminum compound; and(C) an electron donor compound; and the catalyst systewm as obtained in the above-described manner.Ethylenic polymers having a narrow distribution of molecular weight, having suitability for use in injection molding and having excellent powder characteristics can be produced, and by using this polymer, film having excellent optical characteristics can be produced.

Abstract: A contact-dehydrating sheet suitable for use in the production of dried protein-containing food such as fish and meat and a method for drying the protein-containing food are presented. The contact-dehydrating sheet comprises:(a) a water permeable film,(b) a dehydrating layer consisting essentially of a water absorbing polymer substance dispersed in a hydrophilic adhesive substance, said layer being placed on the surface, opposite to the surface where the protein-containing food to be dried is contacted, of the water-permeable film, and(c) a protective film covering over the dehydrating layer.