Abstract: An automated transplanter has been designed for seedlings previously loaded and correctly spaced on a low tensile-strength, biodegradable tape wound on a spool. The transplanter design allowed for rapid planting of the tape with the attached seedlings while minimizing the tension placed on the tape. The design linked the unspooling of the tape directly to the ground speed of the tractor and provides for an anti-backlash mechanism to prevent the spool from free-wheeling when the tractor speed slowed quickly. Using this design, synthetic seedlings attached to a low tensile-strength tape were successfully planted at speeds up to 7.5 mph.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method of inhibiting the corrosion of flux-treated metal surfaces. The method comprises the step of contacting the flux-treated metal surface with a formulation comprising a corrosion inhibitor composition comprising one or more mono-carboxylic acids, or salts or isomers thereof, and an effective amount of a corrosion inhibiting surface active agent such as a water soluble alkali or alkaline earth metal nitrate salt. This method has been demonstrated to be a surprisingly effective means to inhibit corrosion of flux-treated metal surfaces found in the cooling systems of internal combustion engines.

Abstract: This invention relates to organic acid corrosion inhibitors for use in antifreeze coolant compositions. The corrosion inhibitors comprise a C.sub.8 mono-carboxylic acid component, or isomers and/or salts thereof, and a neo-decanoic acid, or isomers and/or salts thereof. The corrosion inhibitors of this invention provide improved corrosion protection to metal surfaces as compared to conventional inhibitors and provide surprisingly improved corrosion protection as compared to inhibitors containing only a single mono-carboxylic acid component.

Abstract: A sensor for determining the concentration of a gaseous component of interest is disclosed which comprises a sensing element comprising an inorganic crystalline composition including at least one metal component in an amount effective to provide a signal related to the concentration of the gaseous component of interest, the inorganic crystalline composition having been grown, or derived from a material grown, by crystal growth upon at least a portion of the surface of an inorganic oxide composition to form a composite with at least two substantially contiguous phases which exhibit at least one of a distinct compositional heterogeneity and a distinct structural heterogeneity of one phase to the other; and processing means to process the signal and provide a basis for determining the concentration of the gaseous component of interest.

Abstract: This invention relates to multi-compositional, multiphase composite compositions comprising as phases thereof (i) an electronically conducting or semi-conducting substrate, (ii) an inorganic oxide composition layer in proximity to at least a portion of the surface of said electrically conducting or semi-conducting substrate and (iii) an inorganic crystalline molecular sieve composition layer upon at least a portion of the surface of said inorganic oxide composition layer. The inorganic crystalline molecular sieve composition layer is grown by crystal growth upon at least a portion of the inorganic oxide composition layer surface. The different phases of the composite compositions are substantially contiguous and exhibit a distinct compositional and/or structural heterogeneity of one phase to another.

Abstract: A moisture sensing element is disclosed which comprises an electrically continuous article comprising an inorganic crystalline composition selected from the group consisting of zeolite molecular sieves in which the molar ratio of silica to alumina is greater than 6, silica molecular sieves, non-zeolitic molecular sieves and mixtures thereof; and two electrodes affixed to the article at different locations in current carrying relationship so that the current between the two electrodes passes through at least a portion of the inorganic crystalline composition.

Abstract: A moisture sensing element is disclosed which comprises an electrically continuous article comprising a multi-compositional, multi-phase composite composition comprising as phases thereof (i) an electrically conducting or semiconducting substrate, (ii) an inorganic oxide composition layer in proximity to at least a portion of the surface of the electrically conducting or semiconducting substrate and (iii) an inorganic crystalline molecular sleeve composition layer upon at least a portion of the surface of the inorganic oxide composition layer, wherein the different phases of the composite composition are substantially contiguous and exhibit at least one of a distinct compositional heterogeneity and a distinct structural heterogeneity of one phase to the other; and at least one electrode affixed to the article in current carrying relationship so that the current carried by the electrode passes through at least a portion of the inorganic crystalline molecular sieve composition layer.

Abstract: Crystalline microporous metal aluminophosphates wherein the metal is at least one of Co, Mg, Mn, Fe and Zn are provided having the -43, and -50 structures.