Disclosed is a drafting material comprising a transparent base material with a hydrophilic coating which readily accepts ink, ensures rapid drying of the ink and can be marked in a wipe-resistant manner. The hydrophilic coating of the drafting material includes sulfonate group-containing copolyesters which are preferably present in an amount of 30 to 70 percent by weight. The drafting material can...

A system for handling and pyrolyzing municipal solid waste material; the pyrolyzing being performed in coke ovens (20) of the type used in the steel industry. The municipal solid waste material is shredded (11) to produce a particle size of approximately four inches. The shredded waste material is conveyed to a splitter arrangement (13) wherein the flow of waste material is divided into selectable...

Lubricating oils of improved properties contain a terpolymer of maleic anhydride, lauryl methacrylate, and stearyl methacrylate which has been functionalized or coupled with phenothiazine and with N-methyl piperazine.

PURPOSE:To laminate devices on a circuit board in a three-dimensional form and to improve mounting effect, by bonding the surfaces of the semiconductor devices, on which circuits are not formed. CONSTITUTION:A face-down type semiconductor device 1 is mounted on lands 4-1 on a circuit board 4 by a reflow soldering method. After the upper surface is washed, the surface of a bare-chip type semiconduc...

A package of sliced bacon is disclosed which package is adapted to facilitate the cooking of the sliced bacon by microwave energy. This package (10) includes a plurality of bacon slices (12) generally arranged in a stack with separating sheet means (14) placed between otherwise adjacent bacon slices for maintaining separation of the bacon slices during storage and cooking. An absorbent blotter mea...

1,3-Cyclopentylene compounds of the formula I R1-A1-Z1-A2-(Z2-A3)n-R2 I in which R1, R2, A1, A2, A3, Z1, Z2 and n have the meaning given herein, can be used as components of liquid-crystalline phases.

PURPOSE:To obtain the titled compound useful as an additive for foods, cosmetics, medicaments, etc., in high yield, by subjecting sucrose to ester interchange reaction with a lower alkanol ester of a fatty acid, etc., in the presence of a specific cation exchange resin. CONSTITUTION:Sucrose and a lower alkanol ester of a fatty acid or glycerides are subjected to ester interchange reaction in the p...

Phosphoramidite compounds which are derivatives of saturated secondary amines and are used in the production of oligonucleotides.

Streptomyces avermitilis lacking branched-chain amino acid transaminase activity and/or branched-chain 2-oxo acid dehydrogenase activity, methods for preparation thereof, and use thereof to produce natural and non-natural avermectins useful as parasiticides.

Non-natural demethylavermectins useful as parasiticides and process therefor.

Non-natural demethylavermectins useful as parasiticides and process therefor.