Abstract: A fine conductive film having improved transparence, good conductivity and low-cost characteristics for use on a flat Braun tube to achieve an improved operational efficiency and cost reduction effect, is made by application at room temperature of on constituent selected from the group consisting of indium chloride, indium nitride and indium sulfide, possibly supplemented by tin chloride, dissolved in water and having added to the resulting solution an organo amino silane ester, to thereby form an indium and/or tin hydrate which is then cured by gradually raising the temperature to over 390.degree. C. and up to 450.degree. C.

Abstract: A process for recovering oil from tar sands by subjecting the tar sands to aqueous extraction to produce a bitumen-rich layer containing bitumen, water and solids and a bitumen-lean layer containing relatively less bitumen and relatively more water and solids. The solids present in the bitumen-lean layer contain a substantial portion of finely divided clay having adhered organic matter. The clay solids are retained with the bitumen from the bitumen-lean layer and the bitumen-clay mixture is pyrolyzed. Pyrolysis of the bitumen-lean layer containing clay having adhered organic matter reduces the volume of aqueous tailings which would otherwise be produced and also results in increased hydrocarbon yields.

Abstract: An anisotropically electroconductive rubbery membrane having good adhesiveness can be obtained from a composition comprising: (a) 100 parts by volume of a rubbery fluorocarbon polymer capable of being crosslinked with an organic peroxide compounded with from 0.1 to 30% by weight of an organosilicon compound having, in a molecule, at least one epoxy group, e.g., 3-glycidyloxypropyl trimethoxy silane, to form a continuum of matrix phase; and (b) from 1 to 30 parts by volume of electroconductive particles uniformly dispersed in the matrix phase.