Abstract: An ink jet recording sheet for overhead projection or blue copy comprising on a transparent or translucent support an ink-absorbing layer which is made by coating an organic solvent which contains a denatured polyethylene oxide being soluble in the organic solvent and having a water absorbing ability onto the transparent or translucent support. The ink jet recording sheet which results provides excellent ink drying ability and high optical density, and is excellent for overhead projection or blue copy.

Abstract: A recording sheet for thermal dye-transfer type recording method, having a coating layer which is placed on a substrate, is contacted with a coloring material layer containing sublimable dye and on which the dye is transferred by heating. The coating layer includes as a pigment precipitated calcium carbonate of at least 25,000 cm.sup.2 /g specific-surface-area and as a binder saturated polyester or a mixture of saturated polyester with polyvinyl pyrrolidone. The sheet provides a clear record with superior color density.

Abstract: A heteropoly-acid of the formula:H.sub.3+x (PMo.sub.12-x V.sub.x O.sub.40).nH.sub.2 Owherein x and n are numbers satisfying respectively the equations: 0.ltoreq.x.ltoreq.3 and n.ltoreq.6, and comprising phosphorus as the central atom and molybdenum or molybdenum and vanadium as the coordinating atoms, or its reduction-form product, which is in a cubic crystal structure having diffraction lines at lattice spacings (d) of at least 8.4, 6.8, 5.9, 4.8, 4.2 and 3.4 in the X-ray powder diffraction. The heteropoly-acid is useful as a catalyst, especially as a catalyst in the production of methacrylic acid by the gas-phase catalytic oxidation of methacrolein.

Abstract: A recording sheet for thermal dye-transfer type recording having a coating layer which is placed on a substrate, which is contacted with a coloring material layer containing sublimable dye and on which the sublimable dye is transferred by heating, wherein the coating layer includes an aminoalkyd resin, whereby the recording sheet provides a record with superior color density and causes no heat-adhesion between the recording sheet and a thermal transfer substrate.

Abstract: Ink jet recording paper comprising on a base sheet with a specific sizing degree a coating layer comprising a water-soluble polymeric binder and particular fine silica particles, wherein the sheet provides a superior aptitude for high speed recording with excellent optical density and improved clear image.

Abstract: In the production of methacrolein by vapor phase catalytic oxidation of isobutylene and/or t-butyl alcohol, an improved process for suppressing the amount of acetone to be by-produced which comprises contacting a gaseous mixture comprising isobutylene or t-butyl alcohol, molecular oxygen and steam with a metal oxide catalyst composition comprising molybdenum and bismuth as the essential metal components, the amount of steam in the gaseous mixture being kept to be not more than 4 mol per mol of isobutylene or not more than 3 mol per mol of t-butyl alcohol.

Abstract: Recording paper for use in, for example, an electrostatic recording system, comprising an electrically conductive base layer, a photoconductive or dielectric recording layer disposed on one surface of the base layer, and a heat-sensitive bonding layer disposed on the other surface of the base layer. The bonding layer is non-tacky at normal temperature, and it develops tackiness when heated after a recording has been made on the recording paper.