Abstract: Combinations of glycosaminoglycan and certain cationic polymers provide modified glycosaminoglycan properties and can provide substantivity to keratinous material, compatibility, stability, humectancy, rheology and other properties useful in personal care or medical applications.

Abstract: A composition useful in the manufacture of plenum cable comprising:(i) a copolymer comprised of ethylene and vinyl acetate wherein the portion of the copolymer attributed to the vinyl acetate is in the range of about 25 to about 60 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the copolymer; and(ii) magnesium hydroxide having (a) a strain in the <101> direction of not more than 3.0.times.10.sup.-3 ; (b) a crystallite size in the <101> direction of more than 800 angstroms; and (c) a surface area, determined by the BET method, of less than 20 square meters per gram, the amount of magnesium hydroxide being in the range of about 180 to about 350 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the copolymer.

Abstract: A process for reducing the odor of ethylidene norbornene present in EPDM resin which comprises introducing a crystalline siliceous molecular sieve into said EPDM resin in an amount sufficient to reduce the odor produced by ethylidene norbornene present in said EPDM resin.

Abstract: This invention relates to catalysts for the manufacture of ethylene oxide, especially at commercial concentrations in the presence of carbon dioxide gas recycle, which contains impregnated silver on a support and a mixture of cesium salt and one or more alkali metal and alkaline earth metal salts in which the anions thereof are halide or oxyanions of elements other than the oxygen therein having an atomic number of 7 or 15 to 83 and being from groups 3b through 7b, inclusive, and 3a through 7a, inclusive, of the Periodic Table of the Elements, at least a portion of said oxyanions are oxyanions of group 3b to 7b elements.

Abstract: A process and reaction vessel for producing alkyl nitrite is disclosed the process comprising (a) contacting nitric oxide, lower alcohol and oxygen in a reaction zone such that alkyl nitrite is formed, said reaction zone comprising a reactor section and a rectification section, (b) supplying a liquid scrubbing agent to an upper portion of the rectification section, (c) withdrawing a gaseous alkyl nitrite product stream from the upper portion of the rectification section, and (d) withdrawing a liquid stream from a lower portion of the reactor section. The reactor section provides intimate vapor-liquid contact sufficient to enhance the conversion of nitric oxide to alkyl nitrite and the rectification section provides sufficient vapor residence time to enhance conversion of oxygen, as well as sufficient rectification capabilities to reduce the amounts of water and nitric acid in the gaseous alkyl nitrite product stream.

Abstract: A method is described for producing dispersions of polyurea and the like in polyols of increased stability by polymerizing an amine and an isocyanate in the presence of an aminoalcohol, typically an aminopolyol, having the following formula: ##STR1## wherein A and A' are individually connective atoms which may be same or different, and are selected from the group consisting of carbon and oxygen or combinations thereof with hydrogen atoms or the like satisfying the valences; B is a member selected from the group consisting of nitrogen, NR, R being alkyl or aryl, or CR', R' being hydrogen, alkyl or aryl; D is a member selected from the group consisting of ##STR2## wherein a has a value of one to four; X is a member selected from the group consisting of OH, NH.sub.

Abstract: An improved fluidized bed reactor and a method for its use characterized by a variable thickness inert liner surrounding the fluidized bed reaction zone. Such liner generates heat that is transferred to the reaction zone. The heat is generated in the inert liner by passing an electrical current through the inert liner. The inert liner is thicker at the top than at the bottom and therefore more heat is generated at the bottom of the reaction zone than the top of the reaction zone due to the increased resistance of the thinner portions of the inert liner.

Abstract: Lead frame assemblies for making fused capacitors, such as solid electrolyte capacitors, have cross ties that extend between the anode side and cathode side of the lead frame between every space intended to be occupied by a capacitor and have a fuse tie extending between the cross ties. The anode from the solid electrolytic capacitor body is attached to the fuse tie and a fuse conductor is positioned in an electrically conductive manner between the fuse tie and an anode lead. The assemblies may also be used to make non-polar dielectric capacitors.

Abstract: Polyurea foams are prepared by the reaction of N-(polyoxyalkyl)-N-(alkyl)amines with organic isocyanates in the presence of a suitable catalyst.

Abstract: An improved heated fluidized bed reactor and a method of heating such reactor wherein a means defining an annular heated fluidized bed reaction zone is heated by a first heat source supplying heat to the outer periphery of the fluidized bed reaction zone and a second heat source supplying heat to the inner boundary of the annular fluidized bed reaction zone. The present invention is useful for reactions carried out in a fluidized bed reactor, such as the pyrolysis of silane containing gas into silicon.

Abstract: N-(polyoxyalkyl)-N-(alkyl)amines are reacted with isocyanates and chain extenders to form polyureas and/or polyurethane-urea elastomers.

Abstract: A crystalline orthodontic bracket with enhanced tolerance to fabrication, installation and use is composed of zirconia, yttria, magnesia or strontium titanate.

Abstract: N-(polyoxyalkyl)-N-(alkyl)amines are provided that are reactive with isocyanates to form polyurea and/or polyurethane urea polymers.

Abstract: Hexahydro-s-triazines, and in particular hexamethylenetetramine (HMT), can be used in high water (5.0 or more parts per hundred parts of polyol) flexible polyurethane foams formulations in place of conventional gellation catalysts to produce open celled molded foams with excellent surfaces and with cores free of discoloration.

Abstract: A process for the production of organic bisphosphine dioxides from organic bisphosphonates. The organic bisphosphonate is reacted with a Grignard reagent to give relatively high yields of the organic bisphosphine dioxide.

Abstract: A process for the oxydehydrogenation of ethane to ethylene in a reaction system of open series connected stages, includes changing the total water and acetic acid content in the output gaseous stream after at least one stage other than the last stage of the series.

Abstract: This invention produces higher homologs, i.e., differing by at least a --CH.sub.2 -unit, of carbonyloxy-containing compounds by treating the carbonyloxy-containing compounds with carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of a ruthenium-containing compound, a proton donor, an iodide promoter, and optionally, a manganese-containing compound.

Abstract: An environmentally safe method is provided for the removal and disposal of residual water soluble polymers, particularly polyethers, from aqueous waste streams, wherein a pretreated inert inorganic substrate is contacted with the waste stream and the polymer contained therein adsorbed onto the substrate. Thereafter, the polymers are removed from the substrate as CO.sub.2 and water by combustion and the substrate subjected to regenerative conditions for recycling.

Abstract: Process for the manufacture of quaternary ammonium pendant siloxane copolymers by the reaction of epoxy pendant siloxane copolymers with a tertiary amine acid salt using a catalytic amount of a free tertiary amine as the catalyst.

Abstract: The present invention relates to olefin polymers stabilized with polysiloxanes containing sterically hindered heterocyclic moieties, said polysiloxanes represented by the general formula M*.sub.v D.sub.x D*.sub.y T.sub.z Q.sub.w M*.sub.v.