Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the colouration of organic media by granulated inorganic pigments.

Abstract: The invention relates to a non-dusting, homogeneous pigment preparation containingat least 70% by weight of one or more flaky pigments,1-30% by weight of water,0.1-20% by weight of a humectant, andless than 1.00% by weight of one or more preservatives.

Abstract: A laser beam absorbing resin composition is disclosed which includes 100 parts by weight of a resin, and 1-100 parts by weight of composite particles having an average particle diameter of 0.1-50 .mu.m and each including a particulate, laser beam absorbing inorganic substance, and a colorant physically bonded directly to the inorganic substance and capable of discoloring upon being heated at a temperature of 250.degree. C. or more, the weight ratio of the colorant to the inorganic substance being in the range of 1:99 to 50:50. By irradiating a shaped, hardened body of the above composition with a laser beam, the colorant is thermally decomposed, so that the color of the irradiated surface is changed and becomes discriminative from that of non-irradiated surface.

Abstract: Luster pigments based on coated plateletlike substrates comprising nitrogen-containing metal layers and if desired additionally one or more layers consisting essentially of colorless or selectively absorbing metal oxide, are prepared and used for coloring paints, inks, including printing inks, plastics, glasses, ceramic products and decorative cosmetic preparations.

Abstract: Dendrite or asteroidal titanium dioxide micro-particles having a length of 0.2 to 0.5 .mu.m, a thickness of 0.05 to 0.1 .mu.m, and a specific surface area of 20 to 130 m.sup.2 /gram, are produced by treating hydrated titanium oxide particles with an alkali, mixing instantaneously the resulting reaction product with an amount of hydrochloric acid in a ratio of 1 to 4 mols of hydrochloric acid to one mol of the titanium oxide in the reaction product to effect a reaction, then aging under heat at 85.degree. C. or higher, and then drying or, if necessary, firing after the drying, and subsequently may be coated with at least one from oxides and hydrated oxides of elements selected from aluminum, silicon, titanium, zirconium, tin and antimony to improve the dispersibility and resistance to light of the particles, or may be coated with tin oxide containing antimony or indium oxide containing tin to make the particles electroconductive.

Abstract: A pearlescent pigment based on a metal oxide-coated, platelet-shaped substrate and a top layer on the metal oxide layer, where the top layer comprises silicon dioxide, at least one further metal hydroxide or metal oxide hydrate and at least one organic coupling reagent. The further metal hydroxides or metal oxide hydrates are hydroxides or oxide hydrates of cerium, aluminum or zirconium, or mixtures thereof. The coupling reagents employed are organofunctional silanes, zirconium aluminates or metal acid esters.

Abstract: A product in the form of colored inorganic particles including one or a number of melanin pigments, a process for its preparation and to its use, especially in the field of cosmetics, for make-up for the exoskeleton and/or for the skin, and in protecting human skin against UV radiation.

Abstract: Luster pigments useful for coloring paints, printing inks, plastics, glasses, ceramic products and decorative cosmetic preparations are based on multiply coated plateletlike metallic substrates comprisingA) a first, colorless or selectively absorbing layer of metal oxide,B) a second, nonselectively absorbing layer of carbon, metal and/or metal oxide, andC) if desired a third, colorless or selectively absorbing layer of metal oxide.

Abstract: a process for the preparation of anatase titanium dioxide having a high surface area and suitable as a catalyst support is described.The process involves forming an aqueous dispersion of titanium dioxide at a pH less than 3 and preferably less than 1 and depositing a first coating of a hydrous oxide of an element which acts as a rutilisation inhibitor and a second coating of a phosphate on the particles of titanium dioxide.The product of the process has a high surface area which is retained on heating for long periods at high temperature.A novel product is particulate anatase titanium dioxide which has been coated with a rutile inhibitor and a phosphate, has a specific surface area of at least 50 m.sup.2 /g and retains at least 80% of its surface area after heating at 800.degree. C. for 7 days.

Abstract: A pigment comprising leaf-like substrates particles having a particle size of 0.5 to 100 .mu.m, whereby the surface of said particles is covered with a metal oxide comprising titanium oxide and zirconium oxide in a molar ratio of 10:1 to 10:15 within a range of from 20 wt. % to 60 wt. % based on the total weight of the pigment possesses good adhesion and spreadability and has an effect of preventing ultraviolet rays and infrared rays.

Abstract: Colorant clusters comprising an aggregation of a plurality of grains of sol-derived material and colorant. The clusters are particularly useful as pigments in liquid compositions, e.g., paints and inks, for forming coatings that are retroreflective immediately upon drying. Also, a process for preparing such colorant clusters comprising admixing colorant in a binder sol to yield a pigment sol and then removing liquid medium from the pigment sol to yield the clusters. Also, a coating composition comprising retroreflective elements, a vehicle, and the aforementioned colorant clusters. After application of the composition to a substrate, the resultant coating is immediately retroreflective upon drying.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pigmentary titanium composite having good durability and excellent optical properties. The inventive composite consists essentially of: a particulate titanium dioxide base; a hydrous zirconium oxide layer deposited on the titanium dioxide base; and a hydrous alumina layer deposited on the hydrous zirconium oxide layer. The alumina layer consists essentially of boehmite alumina and/or pseudoboehmite alumina.The present invention also provides a method for preparing the inventive pigmentary composite. The inventive method comprises the steps of: (a) preparing an aqueous slurry comprising water and a particulate titanium dioxide base; (b) depositing a layer of a hydrous zirconium oxide precipitate on the titanium dioxide base; and (c) depositing a layer of a hydrous alumina precipitate on the layer of hydrous zirconium oxide. The hydrous alumina precipitate consists essentially of boehmite alumina and/or pseudoboehmite alumina.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel titanium dioxide aggregates especially suitable for an electrophotographic photosensitive material. This titanium dioxide aggregates comprise sintered aggregates of fine primary particles and have a rutile type crystal structure and an oil absorption of 35-65. This titanium dioxide aggregates which are treated with a mineral acid is also provided. There is also provided an electrophotograpic photosensitive material which contains such titanium dioxide in a photosensitive layer.

Abstract: The object of the invention is a process for coating a titanium dioxide pigment according to which a dispersion of titanium dioxide in water is formed, optionally in the presence of a dispersing agent, such as a water soluble silicate and/or an aminoalcohol, whereafter to the titanium dioxide pigment dispersion (1) an acidic hydrolysable titanium compound in an amount of 0.1 to 1.5% by weight calculated as TiO.sub.2, (2) a water soluble phosphate in an amount of 0.1 to 1.0% by weight calculated as P.sub.2 O.sub.5, (3) an acidic hydrolysable zirconium salt in an amount of 0.1 to 1.4% by weight calculated as ZrO.sub.2, is added, the slurry is made alkaline with a base, and (4) a water soluble hydrolysable alkaline aluminium compound is added in an amount of 0.5 to 5.5% by weight calculated as Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, whereby all the percentages by weight are calculated from the weight of the TiO.sub.

Abstract: The solar heat-shielding paint composition of the present invention contains a solar heat-shielding pigment having a grain size of 50 .mu.m or less in a proportion of from 2 to 60% by weight of the solid content of the composition as a part or all of the pigment. The solar heat-shielding paint-coated structure having an outermost overcoat layer made of the said paint composition on the structure base displays an excellent solar heat-shielding effect and has a long-time durability with no problem of environmental pollution. The overcoat may be colored in any desired color to give a beautiful outward appearance. The coated structure is extremely useful as an outdoor structure, for example, marine structures such as decks or tanks of ships, as well as land structures such as architectures of petroleum tanks, houses, buildings, storehouses or gymnasia, and cars, tank lorries and refrigerator containers.

Abstract: Process for the manufacture of a powder of mixed metal oxides by cohydrolysis of metal alcoholates in the presence of an acidic organic compound and mixed metal oxide powders in which the molar relationships R1 and R2 of a metal oxide to the sum of the metal oxides in the powder and in a particle of the powder are such that ##EQU1## The process applies especially well to powders of zirconia doped with yttrium oxide or other oxides.

Abstract: The invention relates to a dental filling material containing at least one polymerizable (meth)-acrylic acid ester, characterized in that it contains 20 to 90% by weight, calculated on the total composition, of a compound consisting of the structural element E2 and at least one of the structural elements E1 and/or E3 and/or E4 of the general formula ##STR1## where R.sub.1 denotes a methyl, ethyl, n-propyl, isopropyl or an unsubstituted or CH.sup.3 --C.sub.3 H.sub.7 --substituted phenyl radical, R.sub.2 denotes a CH.sub.2 .dbd.CH--, CH.sub.2 .dbd.CHCOO(CH.sub.2).sub.n --]or ##STR2## or R.sub.1, n denotes 0, 1, 2 or 3, and M denotes titanium or zirconium.

Abstract: Novel rutile mixed phase pigment microgranulates are disclosed which comprise hemispherical particles indented to form toroid-shaped beads. The microgranulates are free-flowing, non-dust forming, and are stable in handling.

Abstract: Beige-brown encapsulated pigments are obtained by means of the encapsulation of iron titanates of the formula Fe.sub.2 TiO.sub.5 in zirconium silicate crystals. The production takes place by calcining a mixture of zirconium oxide with a particle size distribution of .ltoreq.5 .mu.m and specific surfaces of .gtoreq.4 m.sup.2 /g, silicon dioxide and iron oxides and titanium oxides or oxide-forming Fe compounds and Ti compounds in the presence of mineralizers under oxidizing conditions at 800.degree. to 1300.degree. C.

Abstract: Gray-black pigments are prepared by encapsulating iron titanates of formula FeTiO.sub.3 in zirconium silicate crystals. Manufacture is by calcining a mixture of zirconium oxide having a particle size distribution of 6 to 10 .mu.m and a specific surface area of 2 to 5.2 m.sup.2 /g, silicon dioxide and iron and titanium oxides or Fe and Ti compounds forming oxides in the presence of mineralizers under oxidizing conditions at 800 to 1300.degree. C. Finely divided FeTiO.sub.3 can also be used.

Abstract: In a process for producing a composite TiO.sub.2 pigment which contains a white inert extender, the neutralization is simplified and the need for washing processes is eliminated in that a metatitanic acid suspension, which contains free and combined sulfuric acid and has been purified for the removal of chromophoric elements, is neutralized by an addition of calcium oxide and/or barium oxide in quantities which are stoichiometric with respect to total sulfate, the calcium sulfate and/or barium sulfate is precipitated in an intimate mixture with the metatitanic acid, and the coprecipitate is separated and dried. The precipitated calcium sulfate and/or barium sulfate is contained in the coprecipitate in an amount from 1 to 25% by weight.

Abstract: A process for the improvement of titanium dioxide pigments by a post-treatment, wherein the titanium dioxide pigment produced by any process, in the form of an aqueous suspension and in any order, is treated with an aqueous titanium oxide chloride solution resulting from the scrubbing of off-gases derived from the production of titanium tetrachloride and, optionally, with one or more other water-soluble metal salts which when neutralized form difficult-to-dissolve oxide hydrates and/or other difficult-to-dissolve compounds, and/or optionally with a water-soluble silicate, and where difficult-to-dissolve oxide hydrates and/or other difficult-to-dissolve compounds are precipitated onto the titanium dioxide pigment from the titanium oxide chloride solution and, if present, from the other metal salts and/or the silicate, and where the titanium dioxide pigment thus treated is recovered such as by being separated from the suspension, washed, dried and milled.