Abstract: A thermoplastic molding composition composed of, based on the total of A, B, C and D,40-95% by weight of a copolymer A of, based on A,90-95% by weight of styrene and/or its derivatives and 10-50% by weight of acrylonitrile, optionally up to 50% by weight of a graft copolymer B of 20-80% by weight of a monomer mixture of either styrene/acrylonitrile in the ration from 9:1 to 4:6 or styrene/acrylonitrile/methylacrylate in the ration from 19:1:1 to 8:6:6 onto 80-20% by weight of an elastomer based on butadiene or acrylic ester as grafting base, graft copolymerization being effected in either emulsion or solution, 1-50% by weight of a reinforcing glass fiber material C and 0.1-50% by weight of a terpolymer D of styrene, methyl methacrylate and maleic anhydride composed of 1-15% by weight each of styrene and maleic anhydride and a styrene/maleic anhydride ratio of from 5:1 to 1:5, and methyl methacrylate.

Abstract: Crosslinked, finely divided, water-absorbing polymers are prepared in a batchwise process by copolymerization of 100 parts by weight of a monomer mixture of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid, each of which is neutralized with from 0 to 100 mol% of an alkali metal or ammonium base,or acrylamide, methacrylamide or N-vinylpyrrolidone with, as a crosslinking agent, from 0.01 to 5 parts by weight of a monomer containing two or more ethylenically unsaturated double bonds in 20-80% by weight aqueous solution in the presence of an initiator in a multistage procedure in a batchwise mixing apparatus wih constant thorough mixing in all stages, in the first stage the aqueous monomer solution being copolymerized at from 45.degree. to 95.degree. C. and under from 0.1 to 0.8 bar with removal of some of the water by distillation, in the second stage the copolymerization being completed at from 100.degree. to 170.degree. C.

Abstract: Finely divided, gel-like crosslinked polymers are prepared by a continuous method in which a monomer mixture which contains, per 100 parts by weight of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid, from 50 to 100 mol % of which in each case are neutralized, acrylamide, methacrylamide or N-vinylpyrrolidone, from 0 to 30 parts by weight of other water-soluble monoethylenically unsaturated monomers and from 0 to 20 parts by weight of water-insoluble monoethylenically unsaturated monomers is copolymerized with from 0.01 to 5 parts by weight of a crosslinking agent, in 20-65% strength by weight aqueous solution in the presence of an initiator at from 45.degree. to 95.degree. C.