Abstract: The invention herein disclosed provides a method for preparing improved fluoroelastomer film compositions including the steps of dissolving a fluoroelastomer gum selected from the group consisting of copolymers of vinylidene fluoride and hexafluoropropylene, and terpolymers of vinylidene fluoride, hexafluoropropylene and tetrafluoroethylene in a solvent, adding an amine-derived curative to the gum solution and curing the fluoroelastomer gum with the curative in the absence of metallic oxides. A method is also provided for adhering fluoroelastomer film compositions, devoid of metallic oxides, to substrates which includes the steps of dissolving the fluoroelastomer gum in a solvent, adding an amine-derived curative to the gum solution, coating the substrate with the fluoroelastomer gum-curative solution and evaporating the solvent leaving a film firmly adhered to the substrate.

Abstract: A homopolymer or copolymer which contains, as a monomer unit, at least one styrene of the formula ##STR1## in which R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 independently of one another denote hydrogen, fluorine or partly or completely fluorinated alkyl or alkoxy andR.sup.4 and R.sup.5 independently of one another represent hydrogen or fluoride, the total number of fluorine atoms in the radicals R.sup.1 to R.sup.5 being at least 3 and the total number of carbon atoms in the radicals R.sup.1 to R.sup.3 being at most 8. The homo- or copolymers can be prepared by vinyl polymerization. They are useful as lenses or other components in an optical system where they have a refractive index n.sub.D of 1.42 to 1.55 with an Abbe number v.sub.D of 30 to 50.

Abstract: Polyolefin polymer powder containing active catalyst residues is deactivated by contacting such powder with a mixture containing an inert gas and an ammonium salt in a dry state.

Abstract: Vinyl and vinylidene halide resins containing carboxyl or sulfonic acid functionalities can be formulated as stable, aqueous, colloidal dispersions by converting them to ionomers in a mixture of water-miscible base, water, organic water-miscible macromolecular compound, water-miscible organic solvent having an affinity for the resin and water-miscible organic co-solvent which is a poor solvent for the resins and a water-immiscible organic diluent, stripping the resultant colloidal dispersion to a total organic solvent content of about 0.2 to about 20% by volume and finally mixing the colloidal dispersion with an acrylic internally crosslinked rheology modifier.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the forming of a powder composition of a sulfonated polymer, wherein the powder has a volume density of about 15 to about 30 pounds/cubic foot and a water content of less than 2 wt. % wherein the polymer is selected from neutralized sulfonated elastomeric and thermoplastic polymers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to vinyl biphenyl compounds of the formula ##STR1## wherein one of R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 is vinyl and the other is hydrogen, and the cyclic moiety A is a -2,5-, -2,3-, or -3,4- di-OR-1-phenyl moiety wherein R is a hydroxy-protecting group, polymers prepared therefrom, and methods of preparation thereof. The subject vinyl biphenyls can be polymerized and the resultant polymers deblocked to remove the R groups and provide the corresponding polymeric dihydroxybiphenyls which can be employed as redox polymers.

Abstract: Resins suitable for adhesives are based on .alpha.-methyl styrene, styrene and phenol in certain percentages, viz. 25 to 63, 35 to 73 and 2 to 15 percent by weight, respectively.Combinations of resin, ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer, atactic polypropylene, ethyl acrylate copolymer or a thermoelastomer and optionally a wax or tackifying oil yield excellent adhesives, in particular hot-melt adhesives.

Abstract: An aqueous dispersion of improved stability, said dispersion consisting essentially of a mixture of(A) 10 to 90% by weight of an ethylene/.alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated carboxylic acid copolymer containing 12 to 20% by weight on an average of .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated carboxylic acid units or the metal salt thereof, and(B) 90 to 10% by weight of an ethylene/.alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated carboxylic acid copolymer containing 5 to 12% by weight on an average of .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated carboxylic acid units or the metal salt thereof,said mixture containing 8 to 20% by weight on an average, based on the weight of the mixture, of the .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated carboxylic acid units, 30 to 80% of which units are present in the form of metal salts, and said mixture not containing more than 5% by weight, based on the weight of the mixture, of a fraction of the ethylene/.alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated carboxylic acid having an .alpha.,.beta.

Abstract: This invention provides a process for preparing polyolefins using a new catalyst. According to this invention, .alpha.-olefins can be polymerized or copolymerized to have good stereoregularity and at a high activity by the use of such new catalyst. The new catalyst used in this invention consists of [A] a solid component obtained by contacting (1) a magnesium oxide, (2) an aluminum trihalide, (3) a hydroxy compound represented by the general formula ROH wherein R is an organic radical having 1 to 20 carbon atoms and (4) a titanium halide and/or an addition product of a titanium halide and an aromatic carboxylic acid ester, and [B] an organometallic compound and/or an addition product of an organometallic compound and an aromatic carboxylic acid ester; or it consists of the solid component of the above [A], the organometallic compound and/or the addition product of an organometallic compound and an aromatic carboxylic acid ester of the above [B], and [C] an aromatic carboxylic acid ester.

Abstract: Vinyl acetate and an unsaturated acid are copolymerized in the presence of bis (4-tert. butyl cyclohexyl) peroxydicarbonate. The resulting copolymer which exhibits improved aerosol propellant solubility characteristics is employed in aerosol hair lacquer compositions.

Abstract: In polymerizing an olefin, for example, in a polymerization reactor with a reflux condenser, a gas mixture withdrawn from the polymerization reactor is first washed before it reaches the heat transfer surface of the reflux condenser to remove active catalyst particles and polymer particles entrained therein and then condensed to obtain a condensed liquid, and the condensed liquid is returned to the polymerization reactor whereby the heat generated in the polymerization reactor is efficiently removed without causing any clogging of pipes, etc.

Abstract: An improved process for the continuous recovery of solid thermoplastic resin from organic solvent solutions using a modified slurry granulation-steam stripping process.

Abstract: A process of removing solvents from polymer solutions is made more efficient by the use of a prestripping operation during which substantially none of the polymer precipitates from solution.

Abstract: An injection molding or extrusion polypropylene composition having improved impact strength and improved weld line properties, wherein the polypropylene composition comprises a blend composition of an isotactic polypropylene homopolymer having a number average molecular weight as measured by GPC of at least 15,000, about 5 to about 15 parts by weight of a zinc neutralized sulfonated EPDM terpolymer per 100 parts by weight of the isotactic polypropylene homopolymer, and about 5 to about 15 parts by weight of a high molecular weight polypropylene.

Abstract: A method of storing guayule and guayule-like plant material prior to processing which comprises mixing the material in communited form with at least one essentially water-free organic liquid to form a slurry in which the material is protected from contact with oxygen and storing said slurry for at least about 24 hours is discosed. Preferably, the organic liquid is an alcohol, ether, ester, ketone, or hydrocarbon and optionally the slurry also contains an oxidation stabilizer.

Abstract: By adding substances corresponding to the following general formula I ##STR1## in which X=O, S or N--R.sub.5 ; R.sub.1 =hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.19 -alkyl, C.sub.2 -C.sub.19 -alkenyl, phenyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkylene phenyl, C.sub.5 -C.sub.12 -cycloalkyl or C.sub.5 -C.sub.12 -cycloalkenyl; R.sub.2 =hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.19 -alkyl, C.sub.2 -C.sub.12 -alkenyl, phenyl or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkylene phenyl; R.sub.3 =hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.19 -alkyl, C.sub.2 -C.sub.19 -alkenyl, phenyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkylene phenyl, acryl formyl or acetyl; R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 =same or different, C.sub.1 -C.sub.19 -alkyl, C.sub.2 -C.sub.19 -alkenyl, phenyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkylene phenyl, acryl, C.sub.5 -C.sub.12 -cycloalkyl or C.sub.5 -C.sub.12 -cycloalkenyl; R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 may also form a C.sub.4 -C.sub.7 -ring which may optionally contain an oxygen atom in ether form and the radicals R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may form a C.sub.5 -C.sub.12 -alkylene bridge or a C.sub.5 -C.sub.12 -alkenylene bridge, the radicals R.sub.

Abstract: Precrosslinked nitrile rubber polymers are prepared by interpolymerizing a polyol polyacrylate with butadiene and acrylonitrile to improve compression set, extrusion rate and die swell properties of the precrosslinked polymers and blends thereof with linear nitrile rubber polymers without sacrificing other physical and processing properties.

Abstract: The formation of scale on the inner surfaces of a vessel used for suspension polymerizing vinyl chloride is inhibited by applying a ternary reaction product of furfural, a polyamine and a phenol to said inner surfaces or by adding the ternary product to the polymerization system.

Abstract: A rubber composition comprising (1) a partially hydrogenated copolymer rubber composed of 10 to 50% by weight of an acrylonitrile unit, 25 to 88% by weight of a hydrogenated conjugated diene unit and 2 to 25% by weight of a conjugated diene unit, and (2) a sulfur vulcanizer system. The composition can give vulcanizates having improved ozone cracking resistance and oil resistance.

Abstract: 2-Alkoxyethanols, particularly 2-methoxyethanol and 2-ethoxyethanol, aqueous solvents based thereon are disclosed as advantageous solvents for the liquid phase coupling of sulfaryl halides to polymeric amines.