Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of using foam to remove pollutants and/or heavy metals from a flowable media. The method may include providing a foam that may include cavities wherein the cavities may include an adsorbent composition of iron oxyhydroxy granules. The iron oxyhydroxy granules may have a BET surface area of >100 m2/g and a mean particle size of 0.1 mm-2 mm. The method may further include passing a flowable media containing pollutants and/or heavy metals through the foam wherein the pollutants and heavy metals may be removed from the flowable media by the iron oxyhydroxy granules. A method of manufacturing the foam is also disclosed. The method may include introducing an adsorbent composition into a liquid reaction composite to form a mixture and adding an isocyanate reaction component to the mixture to form the foam.

Abstract: The present invention relates to foams containing an adsorbent composition and a process for their production and also to use thereof.

Abstract: A method for preparing an acid catalyst having a long shelf-life is provided comprising doping crystalline iron oxides with lattice-compatible metals and heating the now-doped oxide with halogen compounds at elevated temperatures. The invention also provides for a catalyst comprising an iron oxide particle having a predetermined lattice structure, one or more metal dopants for said iron oxide, said dopants having an ionic radius compatible with said lattice structure; and a halogen bound with the iron and the metal dopants on the surface of the particle.

Abstract: Cobalt coated, needle shaped berthollide iron oxide pigments are disclosed which have a core of the composition (Fe.sub.x.sup.2+, Fe.sub.2.sup.3+)O.sub.3+x wherein 0.3<x<0.75, optionally also including an intermediate coating of Zn-containing benhollide between the core and the cobalt coating. The pigments are prepared by first coating the core with berthollide and a soluble zinc compound, followed by coating with a cobalt compound.

Abstract: Magnetic iron oxide pigments useful in manufacturing magnetic recording media are prepared by a method which comprises coating a magnetic iron oxide core particle material having the composition FeO, wherein x is from 1.33 to 1.5, in a first step with a preliminary coating of a cobalt-containing bertholloid material or a material having the composition Co.sub.x Fe.sup.II.sub.l-x Fe.sup.III.sub.2 O.sub.4 wherein x is greater than zero but less than or equal to 1 and then in a second step the preliminary coated particle is coated with a cobalt compound.

Abstract: Magnetic iron oxide pigments useful in magnetic signal recordings having a dependence of coercivity on temperature in the temperature range of from 76K to 298K of less than 0.13 kA/mK and having a coercivity on powder compressed to 0.9 g/cm.sup.3 of greater than 51 kA/m are prepared by coating a magnetic iron oxide core material having the composition FeO.sub.x where x is a number from 1.33 to 1.5 in a first step with a compound containing divalent and trivalent iron having a ratio of Fe(III): Fe(II) from 0.01 to less than 2, and then in a second step coating the pre-coated core with a second coating of a cobalt compound.

Abstract: Magnetic iron oxide pigments having a monomolecular coating of a cobalt compound useful in magnetic signal recordings having a dependence of coercivity on temperature in the temperature range of from 76 K to 298 K of less than 0.13 kA/mK and having a coercivity on powder compressed to 0.9 g/cm.sup.3 of greater than 51 kA/m are prepared applying a preliminary coating of Fe.sub.3 O.sub.4 or a bertholloid compound to a magnetic iron oxide core material having the composition FeO.sub.x where x is a number from 1.33 to 1.55 and then covering the preliminary coating with a cobalt compound.