Abstract: Aromatic nitro compounds in waste waters from nitrobenzene production plants are degraded by treatment with ozone at 60-100° C. 1.5-10 bar and pH 3 to 12.

Abstract: Preparation of methyl formate by the reaction of carbon monoxide and methanol under conditions of elevated pressure and temperature in the presence of an alkali metal methylate, in whichA) the starting materials are mixed in a mixing zone, are allowed to react partially, and the reaction solution is saturated with CO andB) the reaction is allowed to reach completion in one or more secondary reaction zones without the addition of further starting materials.

Abstract: Pigment compositions including nickel titanium yellow or chromium titanium yellow as an inorganic component together with an organic pigment component impart better gloss and/or hiding power to organic coatings containing 10% or more of the compositions if the compositions are prepared by subjecting a suspension of the components in a liquid medium to intense shearing stresses and thereafter separating the mixed pigments from the medium.

Abstract: Thermoplastic molding compositions based on polybutylene terephthalate having a relative viscosity of from 1.3 to 2.0, as measured in a phenol/o-dichlorobenzene mixture at 25.degree. C, and which contain, to increase the thermo-aging stability and toughness and also to improve the processing stability, from 0.1 to 10% by weight, based on the polybutylene terephthalate, of isocyanates or isothiocyanates and/or carbodiimides and/or compounds forming isocyanate groups or isothiocyanate groups and/or carbodiimide groups.

Abstract: Stable, liquid, homogeneous solutions of isocyanurate-polyisocyanates containing amide and/or acylurea groups in monomeric diisocyanates and/or polyisocyanates which are free from amide, acylurea and/or isocyanurate groups, are obtained by reacting polybasic carboxylic acids with diisocyanates and/or polyisocyanates to give diisocyanates and/or polyisocyanates containing amide groups and/or acylurea groups, converting the diisocyanates and/or polyisocyanates containing amide and/or acylurea groups by trimerization and, optionally, polymerization, into isocyanurate-polyisocyanates containing amide and/or acylurea groups, and mixing the products with monomeric diisocyanates and/or polyisocyanates.