Abstract:
PRODUCTION OF ALKALI METAL TRICHROMATE MEICR3O8 BY REACTING A MELT OF AT LEAST ONE ALKALI METAL DICHROMATE WITH A PROTON DONOR COMPOUND AT A TEMPERATURE OF BETWEEN 250 AND 500*C., SEPARATING THE UNREACTED DICHROMATE FROM THE REACTION MIXTURE, WASHING AND DRYING THE TRICHROMATE CONTAINING RESIDUE.
Abstract:
Silicone fibers are produced by dry or wet spinning a solution obtained by hydrolysis of an organoalkoxysilane and/or an organoalkoxypolysiloxane, which solution also contains about 0.01 to 2% of highly polymerized poly-lower alkylene oxide, by incorporating therein a tetraalkoxysilane and/or an alkoxypolysiloxane to the extent of about 5 to 99 mole % of the silanes plus siloxanes. The spinning solution may be formed directly from reaction of the corresponding chlorosilanes with lower alkanols, removal of by-product HCl, and addition of polylower alkylene oxide and of water in up to about six times the stoichiometric amount required for complete hydrolysis of all the alkoxy groups of the silanes and siloxanes. If desired, up to 40% of a lower alkanol can be added to the solution as a solubilizing agent. The resulting novel silicone fibers can be converted to quartz fibers by heating above 600*C, and if heating is effected rapidly and/or under an inert gas varying amounts of carbon in finely disperse form will be distributed through the fiber.
Abstract:
A METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF OXIDE WHISKERS OF THE ELEMENTS TI, BE, MG, CA, ZN, B, AL, RARE EARTH METALS, SI, SN, V, ZR, SB, CR, MN AND FE OR MIXTURES THEREOF BY CONTACTING A COMPOUND OF THE AFOREMENTIONED ELEMENTS WITH A MELT OF AT LEAST ONE SALT OF A SULFUR-CONTAINING OXYACID CAPABLE OF FORMING A VOLATILE ANHYDRIDE, UNDER THE REACTION CONDITIONS. OPTIONALLY THE MELT CONTAINS ADDITIONALLY AT LEAST ONE METAL HILIDE PREFERABLY AN ALKALI METAL OR ALKALINE EARTH METAL HALIDE. NORMALLY THE REACTION IS CARRIED OUT AT A TEMPERATURE OF BETWEEN ABOUT 600 AND 1200*C. THE OXIDE WHISKERS WHICH FORM IN THE MELT ARE EASILY SEPARATED FROM THE REACTION MIXTURE EITHER BY CENTRIFUGING OR FILTERING THE HOT MELT OR BY REMOVING THE WHISKERS FROM THE REACTION BYPRODUCTS STILL IN THE MELT BY DISSOLVING SAID BYPRODUCTS IN WATER.
Abstract:
AN IMPROVEMENT FOR THE PROCESS TO PRODUCE LACTAMS BY CATALYTICALLY REARRANGING CYCLIC KETOXIMES BY PASSING A GAS MIXTURE CONSISTING OF A GASEOUS CYCLIC KETONXINE AND STEAM OR A MIXTURE OF A GASEOUS CYCLIC KETOXIME, STEAM AND AN INERT GAS OVER A BORON OXIDE CATALYST AT TEMPERATURES OF FROM 200 TO 400*C. AND RECOVERING THE LACTAM FROM THE GAS MIXTURE THUS OBTAINED. BEFORE. BEFORE PASSING THE STEAM OVER THE BORON OXIDE CATALYST THEY ARE SATURATED WITH BORON OXIDE BY PASSING OVER THE X-RAY CRYSTALLINE MODIFICATION OF BORON OXIDE AT A TEMPERATURE OF FROM 200 TO 450C.
Abstract:
In the production of porous shaped structures suitable for carbonization by foaming an organic material capable of being carbonized, and thereafter consolidating the foamed structure as a preliminary to subsequent carbonization, the improvement which comprises employing as the organic material to be foamed and capable of being carbonized an aqueous solution of lignin. The lignin solution preferably contains about 0.01 to 5% by weight of polyethylene oxide or an acrylic acid-acrylamide copolymer having a degree of polymerization in excess of about 2,000. After foaming to achieve a density of less than about 1 gram per cubic centimeter, the foam is consolidated by heat treatment and/or acidification. The resulting product can be carbonized to form porous carbon foams.
Abstract:
Aluminum oxide fibers of the approximate percent composition by weight: Al2O3 61-98% preferably 76-96% SiO2 1-20% preferably 3-15% P2O5 0-10% preferably 0- 5% B2O3 0-10% preferably 0- 5% MgO 0- 5% preferably 0- 1% C 0.1- 4% preferably 0.5-2.8% The fibers are produced by dry spinning a solution containing a neutral or basic aluminum salt of a monobasic lower carboxylic acid, a hydrolyzed silicic acid ester or organoalkoxysilane and polyethylene oxide having a degree of polymerization of at least about 2,000. The product is then heat treated at a temperature between about 400* and 1,800*C. Phosphorus, boron and magnesium may also be present in the solution and end up in the fiber as oxides.
Abstract:
A melt or solution of a silazane is formed into a shaped article by molding or melt or dry extrusion and is thereafter heated in an inert atmosphere to about 800* to 2,000*C to decompose the silazane into a homogeneous mixture of silicon carbide and silicon nitride. The silazane is produced by reacting ammonia with a halogenosilane and, if effected in solution, after removal of by-product ammonium chloride and optionally concentrating, the solution is directly employed for shaping. The solution may be rendered spinnable by addition of small amounts of high polymers and various other additives may also be employed. Fibers produced therefrom are of satisfactory mechanical properties and are suited for use as insulation and reinforcement in laminates.
Abstract:
IMPROVEMENT IN THE PROCESS FOR THE CATALYTIC REARRANGEMENT OF CYCLIC KETOXIMES TO LACTAMS USING A BORON OXIDE CATALYST, THE CATALYST BEING REGENERATED BY ADDING AN ORTHOBORIC ACID ALKYLESTER WHILE BEING IN THE FLUIDISED STATE AT TEMPERATURES OF FROM 200-800*C.
Abstract:
IMPROVEMENT IN THE PROCESS FOR THE CATALYTIC REARRANGEMENT OF CYCLIC KETOXIMES TO LACTAMS USING A BORON OXIDE CATALYST, THE LOSS OF BORON OXIDE BEING AVOIDED BY SEPARATING FROM THE REACTION PRODUCTS A PRIMARY CONDENSATE AT TEMPERATURES OF FROM 120 TO 220*C., CONTAINING BORIC ACID AND ISLOATE THIS BORIC ACID FROM THE PRIMARY CONDENSATION PRODUCT BY ESTERIFICATION WITH A MONODYDRIC ALIPHATIC ALCOHOL TO YIELD AN ORTHOBORIC ACID TRIALKYLESTER WHICH IS HYDROLYZED TO PURE BORIC ACID.