Abstract: A self-powered toy comprises a relatively small toy animal and a relatively large toy animal having an openable mouth. A reel provided inside the large animal is connected to a drive and has a line connected to it that extends out the mouth of the large animal and is attached to the smaller animal. In addition the large animal, which may be constituted as a floatable fish or the like, is provided with means for propelling it through the water so that the drive unit can propel this large animal through the water and simultaneously reel in the small animal. Thus the large animal will appear to pursue and then eat the small animal as it pulls the small animal into its openable mouth.

Abstract: A method of removing nitrogen oxides from a gas containing nitrogen oxides and converting same to a salt of imidodisulfonic acid, wherein the gas containing nitrogen oxides is brought into contact with an aqueous solution which contains at least one ferrous salt and at least one sulfurous acid alkali salt to absorb the nitrogen oxides in solution in the form of imidodisulfonic acid alkali salts.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for removing hydrogen chloride from an exhaust gas containing same without discharging any waste water from the system, which method includes bringing the exhaust gas into contact with a slurry containing calcium carbonate or calcium hydroxide to absorb the hydrogen chloride in the form of calcium chloride and then recovering the calcium chloride as solid calcium chloride hydrate.

Abstract: A melt-molded polyvinylidene fluoride or polymonochlorotrifluoroethylene sheet having a thickness of about 20 .mu. to 2 mm and a spherulite size of less than about 10 .mu., whereby the sheet transmits more than about 40% of the dorno rays in a wavelength region of about 2,800 to 3,300 A, and a sun room using as a light admitting plate a sheet or plate of the polyvinylidene fluoride or the polymonochlorotrifluoroethylene permitting transmission of the physiologically active rays in sunlight.

Abstract: A method of effectively removing nitrogen oxides which are entrained in a gas, wherein a nitrogen oxide-containing gas is brought into contact with an aqueous solution which contains at least one ferrous salt and one sulfurous acid alkali salt to absorb the nitrogen oxides in the solution in the form of imidodisulfonic acid alkali salt, hydrolyzing the imidodisulfonic acid alkali salt to obtain a hydrolyzate-containing solution, and adding nitrous acid, nitrous acid anhydride, or nitrite to the hydrolyzate-containing solution to generate nitrogen.

Abstract: A method of removing nitrogen oxides from a gas containing nitrogen oxides and converting same to ammonium sulfate, wherein the gas containing nitrogen oxide is brought into contact with an aqueous solution which contains at least a ferrous salt and a sulfurous acid alkali salt to absorb the nitrogen oxides in the solution in the form of imidodisulfonic acid alkali salts, and the imidodisulfonic acid alkali salt is converted into ammonium sulfate by hydrolysis at a temperature higher than 100.degree. C after separation and recovery of the salt from solution.

Abstract: A sulfur dioxide-containing exhaust gas is scrubbed by contact with an aqueous solution containing an alkali salt of an organic acid to dissolve sulfur dioxide in the aqueous solution in the form of alkali sulfite. The alkali sulfite in the solution is converted by oxidation into alkali sulfate, which is contacted for reaction with a calcium compound to form calcium sulfate. The calcium sulfate so formed is separated by filtration from the aqueous solution for recovery while the filtrate is recycled for use as the aqueous solution for scrubbing the exhaust gas. The concentration of alkali sulfite in the scrubbing aqueous solution is maintained at a level of less than 1% to ensure efficient removal of sulfur dioxide from the exhaust gas in the form of calcium sulfate.