Abstract: An improved multi-purpose blood diluent is provided which is isotonic, with a neutral pH for avoiding cell volume change. The diluent of the invention provides balance between the effects on cell volume of a preservative for the solution, and the effects of a surfactant. The diluent of the invention is particularly useful as a carrier for blood samples in instruments which automatically provide medical diagnostic determinations of blood samples. The diluent herein includes conventional sodium and potassium chlorides as electrolytes, pH buffers, such as monobasic and dibasic phosphate, and ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid to control and chelate the divalent cations. The balanced preservative-surfactant combination may include, for example, 2-phenoxyethanol with certain ethylene oxide-polypropylene glycol condensation products.

Abstract: A sliding member highly improved with lubricating performance, wear resistant property and strength has a thin steel sheet or plate and sintered metal layer deposited on the steel sheet, wherein the sintered metal layer, comprises copper as a main component incorporated with a certain amount of tin, nickel, phosphorus, graphite and, optionally, with iron, and a sliding member exhibiting excellent lubricating performance, wear resistant property and strength even under impact and heavy loads includes a thick steel sheet or plate with which thin steel sheet of the above-mentioned sliding member is integrally joined.

Abstract: A process for making a mechanical part of a complicated profile by preparing a compact having a projection or shaft (hereinafter called the inner part) and a compact having relative recess or opening (hereinafter called the outer part) by the compression of iron base metal powders, and by fitting the inner part into the outer part followed by sintering. This process is characterized in that the said inner part contains carbon as an essential component in an amount that is larger than the carbon content of the said outer part by 0.2% by weight or higher.

Abstract: A method of enhancing corrosion inhibition of inorganic corrosion inhibitors, particularly stabilized phosphate corrosion inhibitors, when used in high hardness waters containing at least 800 ppm total hardness which comprises adding to the high hardness waters a combined product which includes both the inorganic corrosion inhibitor system and an effective amount of a water-soluble acrylic acid:acrylamide copolymer having an acrylic acid:acrylamide weight ratio between 1:4 and 1:2 and having a molecular weight between 1,000-25,000.

Abstract: A method is provided for reducing the corrosiveness of an aqueous fluid, particularly water containing dissolved oxygen and corrosive chemical agents such as naturally-occurring brine. According to the method, an enzyme which reacts with a substrate and consumes oxygen is added to the water along with a suitable substrate. Crude oil or other hydrocarbon material is also added to the water. The resulting water is less corrosive than water not containing the described system. In another embodiment of the invention, a water-flood method of post-primary oil recovery is provided in which the brine used is made less corrosive to metal drilling equipment by the addition to the water of an oxygen-consuming enzyme, a suitable substrate for the enzyme, and crude oil or other hydrocarbon material.

Abstract: A method and article for medical diagnosis and/or treatment of body disorders, comprising a sleeve unit 10 insertable in a natural body vessel to isolate material flowing into the vessel from direct contact with the interior surface of the vessel. When applied to the treatment of obesity, the sleeve is disposed along a zone in the digestive tract 32 to interfere with the digestive or absorptive function of that zone and thereby reduce net caloric intake.

Abstract: An intravascularly administrable, magnetically responsive nanosphere or nanoparticle made up of a crystalline carbohydrate matrix, preferably starch, enclosing a magnetic material, is described. The nanosphere or nanoparticle is produced by dissolving a carbohydrate together with a magnetic material to form a solution which is emulsified in a hydrophobic solvent from which the carbohydrate is crystallized.The resulting magnetic nanospheres having an average diameter not exceeding 1500 nm are capable of transporting pharmacologically active substances and can be injected intravenously for subsequent concentration in a part of the body by means of a magnetic field.

Abstract: This invention relates to the use of phospho-compositions, for example phosphates, pyrophosphates, polyphosphates, organophosphates, etc., as corrosion inhibitors in oxygen-containing aqueous systems of particulate matter such as slurries of solids, such as coal, etc.

Abstract: A monoclonal antibody known as TA-1 directed against human T-cells is covalently linked to the toxin ricin and used to treat human donor bone marrow before the marrow is infused into a human recipient.

Abstract: A stabilization mixture is described for use with polymeric materials, the mixture evidencing high stabilization efficiency against the effect of ultraviolet radiation which being of low toxicity. The mixture comprises from 80-100%, by weight, of a mixture of 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidinol esters and from 0-20%, by weight, of the ammonium carboxylates thereof. The mixture is prepared by heating derivatives of 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidinol with mixtures of stearic, palmitic, heptadecanic, myristic and oleic acids at temperatures ranging from 150-260 degrees C.

Abstract: An anti-vibration support for the unsupported tip of a thermocouple probe consists of a resilient, compressible, multi-sided sleeve. The sleeve is positioned between the outer surface of the probe and the inner wall of the protective housing. The sides of the resilient sleeve are deformed on insertion between the probe and the wall forcing the edges formed by the intersection of the sides of sleeve firmly into contact with the wall. This multi-point or multi-line contact between the sleeve and the wall firmly secures the tip end of the probe against vibration.

Abstract: A drilling mud, or other drilling fluid containing particulate expanded aggregates is effective to seal the fractures and openings and prevent lost circulation of the mud or fluid in a well. The expanded aggregates used are inorganic clays, shales and slates which are heat treated at temperatures up to about 3000.degree. F. to produce an expanded lattice structure having a series of interconnecting passages. The expanded aggregates are added to any conventional drilling mud, or other drilling fluids, either water-based or oil-based, in an amount sufficient to stop the fractures and openings in the formation. The proportion of the aggregates in the drilling mud, or other drilling fluid, will be varied as needed and will usually range from 1-33 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of drilling mud. Water-based and oil-based drilling muds containing expanded aggregates are novel compositions.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solid phase immunoassay for the detection of Neisseria gonorrhoeae antigens in a clinical specimen, wherein the Neisseria gonorrhoeae antigens to be determined are coated or adsorbed on the solid phase.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solid phase immunoassay for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis antigens in a clinical specimen, wherein the Chlamydia trachomatis antigens to be determined are coated or adsorbed on the solid phase.

Abstract: Oligomers of the formula ##STR1## wherein Y.sub.1 is hydrogen or --CO--T.sub.1, R.sub.1 Q.sub.1 and T.sub.1 are alkyl and n.sub.1 is 1 to 16, or alkali metal salts thereof, are used as stabilizers in peroxide-containing alkaline liquors for bleaching cellulosic fibre materials.

Abstract: A microwave oven cabinet is constructed with plastic materials and has a low resistivity coating on the outside surfaces thereof, which coating is achieved by applying a mixture of a metallic powder and polymer on the surfaces and curing the polymer, followed by an augmentation replacement reaction being effected to replace some of the metallic powder with a more noble metal in such a way that the total volume on the surface of deposited metal exceeds that of the original metal powder replaced at the surface.

Abstract: A wear-resistant metallic article is provided which comprises a metallic substrate, a barrier layer of a metal selected from the group consisting of nickel, alloys of nickel, copper and alloys of copper on a surface of the metallic substrate and a layer of wear-resistant material bonded to the substrate, with the wear-resistant material including a mixture of nickel aluminide in a copper base matrix.

Abstract: An improved composition for inhibiting the corrosion of ferrous metals in acidic environments, especially in the presence of H.sub.2 S.

Abstract: An aqueous heteropolysaccharide solution is treated to improve its injectivity into a subterranean hydrocarbon reservoir by passing the solution through a colloid mill.

Abstract: The field of this invention is the encapsulation of therapeutic or diagnostic substances in minute capsules or spheres from which the substances are slowly released over a prescribed period of time. The general processes for preparing such capsules or spheres include coacervation or a related process by means of which liquid droplets can be encapsulated, and solid phase entrapment in which the water-soluble agent is dispersed in a solid matrix material. The method of this invention can be classified as an improved procedure for matrix encapsulation or entrapment.