This invention involves a process for improving the energy and ignitability of a metal slurry gel rocket fuel by the use of an energetic metal compound of higher energy than the parent metal. An energetic metal compound is added slowly to a liquid rocket fuel with appropriate stirring to form a suspension of the metallic compound in the liquid fuel. To this is added a small quantity of a gelling agent, such as silicon dioxide, with stirring, to form an energetic metal fuel gel. The energetic met...

The invention concerns pharmaceutical compositions containing a novel oxazole derivative, calcium oxaprozin. The formulations may be for oral or other use. The oral formulations are more palatable than those containing oxaprozin itself.

A DC-DC converter has a plurality of diverse type DC-DC converter channels whose outputs are combined to provide a composite DC power output to a load. One of the channels is a high efficiency power path that supplies the average current demand of the load. A second channel comprises a fast transient response power path which handles transient response demands.

This invention relates to wax formulations comprised of specific poly(oxyalkylenated) colorants having fatty ester terminal groups. Preferably the wax formulation is a candle. Such polymeric ester capped colorants provide excellent coloring, decreased migratory properties, and improved balanced burning characteristics over traditional candle colorants and dyestuffs. This invention also concerns methods of making the aforementioned colored candle formulations as well as other colored wax articles...

A method of plugging phosphorus tapholes with a plug of matted ceramic fibers such as alumina-silica fibers wherein closure is effected by placing the ceramic plug, in the shape of a hollow cone, over a backing plug which is then inserted into the furnace taphole by means of a long handle attached to the base of the backing plug. The backing plug is maintained in place until molten furnace material solidifies against the plug thereby sealing off the taphole. Before the furnace is ready to be tap...

A method of closing phosphorus furnace tapholes which comprises applying pneumatic pressure at the taphole opening to force molten material in the boretube back into the furnace and then introducing sand particles through the taphole to meet and effect solidification of incoming molten furnace material thereby sealing off the inner opening of the boretube and filling the remainder of the boretube with sand. Tapping is readily accomplished by blowing out the loose sand and breaking the inner seal...

Methods for accurately joining objects, especially optical objects, are disclosed comprising contacting the objects with light curable composition, causing light to transit at least one of the objects, evaluating the light, positioning the objects in response to the evaluation and irradiating the composition to harden it, thus to fixedly maintain a preselected spatial orientation among the objects.

A novel method of making continuous laminates by irradiation of a continuous sandwich of a radiation curable substrate and a metal foil is described. The method is especially useful for use in conjunction with substrates such as polyethylene in flexible printed circuit applications.

The invention relates to a method of ciphering data transmission in a radio system, and to a user equipment using the method, and to a radio network subsystem using the method. The method includes the steps of: (602) generating a ciphering key; (604A) producing a ciphering mask in a ciphering algorithm using the ciphering key as an input parameter; (604B) using a logical channel specific parameter or a transport channel specific parameter as an additional input parameter to the ciphering algorit...

A paraffin wax candle composition comprising a mixture of a hard paraffin wax and a soft paraffin wax the hard wax having a penetration value as measured by the Needle Penetration Test as defined in ASTM D 1321 of no more than 25 and the soft wax having a penetration value of no less than 45, the composition itself having a penetration value between 30 and 50.