Abstract: A furniture surface having a coating consisting of a bottom layer comprising a silicone oil adjacent to the furniture surface and a top layer comprising an oil having a specific gravity less than the silicone oil in the bottom layer and a water repelling film-forming fluorinated polymer. The coating may consist of a bottom layer comprising a silicone oil adjacent to the furniture surface, an intermediate layer comprising a water repelling film-forming fluorinated polymer, and a top layer comprising an oil having a specific gravity less than the silicone oil in the bottom layer. The coating may also consist of a bottom layer comprising a silicone oil adjacent to the furniture surface, an intermediate layer comprising an oil having a specific gravity less than the silicone oil in the bottom layer, and a top layer comprising a water repelling film-forming fluorinated polymer.

Abstract: A furniture cleaning and polishing composition that provides protection against water. The composition contains an admixture of A) about 0.01 to 4% by weight of a water repelling halofluoro polymer; B) up to 15% mineral oil; C) about 3 to 25% hydrocarbon solvent; D) about 0.1 to 5% silicone oil; about 0.01 to 5% surfactant, and the remainder water.

Abstract: A surface protective composition especially for use on automobiles is prepared which contains about 0.1 to 5% of a film forming fluorine containing polymer, 0 to 10% of micronized wax, a hydrocarbon solvent, an organosilicone compound, a surfactant and water.

Abstract: A furniture cleaning and polishing composition that provides protection against water. The composition contains an admixture of A) about 0.01 to 4% by weight of a water repelling fluorinated polymer; B) up to 15% mineral oil; C) about 3 to 25% hydrocarbon solvent; D) about 0.1 to 5% silicone oil; about 0.01 to 5% surfactant, and the remainder water.

Abstract: A fiber-containing, peelable, solvent-based coating remover that may be applied to a wide variety of coatings and substrates, which can be easily removed by peeling, and which can cling to the underside of a horizontal substrate or to a vertical overhead substrate substantially without dripping.

Abstract: Ring and side chain substituted alkylaryl ketones are useful in controlling the growth of germinating and seedling weed grasses and germinating and seedling broadleaf weeds.

Abstract: Unsubstituted and substituted dialkyl esters of phosphoric and diphosphonic acids, nuclearly brominated derivatives thereof, and metal mono-, bis-, and tris- derivatives of phosphonic acid half-esters are useful as ultraviolet light absorbers and as fire retardants.