Abstract: A process for the production of crystalline alkali metal aluminum phosphate represented by the formulaNa.sub.a K.sub.b H.sub.c Al.sub.d (PO.sub.4).sub.e.xH.sub.2 Owherein a has a value of from 0.5 to 1.5, b has a value of from 0 to 0.5, c has a value of from 12 to 16, d has a value of from 2.7 to 3.3, e has a value of from 7 to 9 and x has a value of from 3 to 6, and wherein a+b+c+3d=3e, comprises mixing phosphoric acid, sodium hydroxide or sodium carbonate and potassium hydroxide or potassium carbonate in aqueous solution with aluminum hydroxide, potassium oxide or aluminum oxide hydrate in amounts defined by the above formula, with a content of free water in solution ranging from 5 to 44%. The reaction mixture is then heated at a temperature of from 80.degree. to 200.degree. C. (if necessary, under elevated pressure) such that partial crystallization takes place. The free water is thereafter completely removed, if necessary under reduced pressure, at a temperature between about 60.degree. to 130.degree. C.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for making 1-aminoalkane-1,1-diphosphonic acids of the general formula (I): ##STR1## in which R stands for an aliphatic hydrocarbon radical having from 1 to 12 carbon atoms.To this end, the invention provides:(a) for tetraphosphorus hexoxide to be reacted with at least one compound of the general formula (II) ##STR2## in which R has the meaning given above and X stands for an --ONH.sub.4 or NH.sub.2 -radical, in inert gas atmosphere at elevated temperature, the molar ratio of tetraphosphorus hexoxide to the compound of general formula (II) being about 1 to 2-6; and(b) for 1-aminoalkane-1,1-diphosphonic acid to be crystallized from the reaction mixture.

Abstract: A process for producing polyalcohols such as xylite from deciduous wood wherein the wood is hydrolyzed with dilute mineral acid to produce a sugar solution which is deionized and decolorized in an ion exchanger and hydrogenated to produce a polyalcohol solution which is also decolorized and deionized by ion exchange and from which pure polyalcohol is thereafter separated by crystallization, further comprising dispensing with neutralization of the acid in the sugar solution after hydrolysis, deionizing and decolorizing both the sugar solution and the polyalcohol solution in the same ion exchanger, eluting acetic acid taken up by the ion exchanger from the polyalcohol solution and displacing polyalcohol solution from the exchanger with the acid containing sugar solution, washing the ion exchanger with water only after ion exchange of the sugar solution, removing the bulk of the acetic acid from the sugar solution by evaporating the sugar solution to a higher concentration than the concentration customarily util

Abstract: For the electrolysis of an aqueous alkali metal chloride solution in a membrane cell with a perfluorinated cation exchange membrane it is important that there is only a minimum amount of cations of polyvalent metals, such as calcium. Otherwise, deposits within the membrane will occur, among other effects. It has been found that the disturbances caused by the above-mentioned cations can be considerably reduced, if an aliphatic polybasic phosphonic acid or the alkali metal salt thereof is added to the alkali metal chloride solution.

Abstract: The invention provides stabilized pulverulent red phosphorus. It comprises a homogeneous blend of red phosphorus particles with a size of at most about 2 mm and a metal compound of the second or third group of the Periodic System as an oxidation stabilizer, wherein the metal compound is the aluminum, magnesium, calcium or zinc salt of an alkyl-, cycloalkyl-, aryl- or aralkylphosphonic acid having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, the metal compound being present in the homogeneous blend in a proportion of about 0.5 to 5 weight %.

Abstract: Corrosion and deposition of boiler scale in water-conveying systems are inhibited. To this end the water is admixed with at least one carboxy-alkane compound of phosphorus of the general formula: ##STR1## in which each of the substituents R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, and R.sup.4 stands for hydrogen or an alkyl group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R.sup.5 stands for hydrogen, an OH-group or an alkyl group having from 1 to 3 carbon atoms, and n stands for 0 or 1, or with at least one water-soluble salt thereof.

Abstract: Production of 2-phenyl-ethylene phosphonic acid by reacting styrene with phosphorus pentachloride in a molar ratio of about 1 : 2 in liquid phase and hydrolyzing the resulting complex 2-phenyl-ethylene phosphonic acid tetrachloride with water.