Blends of EPDM with highly unsaturated rubbers are co-cured with sulfur using as accelerators higher alkyl thiuram disulfides (e.g., tetralaurylthiuram disulfide) or benzothiazylsulfenamides (e.g., N-lauryl-benzothiazylsulfenamide).

A process for the manufacture of higher ketones by reacting an aldehyde with a ketone in the presence of hydrogen over a catalyst system which contains, firstly, oxides or salts of the rare earth metals and, secondly, metals of group VIII of the periodic table of the elements. The process gives numerous higher ketones, required, for example, as solvents for surface coatings, or as scents, with high conversions and good selectivities, and therefore more simply and more economically than conventio...

Apparatus for the production of higher chloromethanes, i.e, CH.sub.2 Cl.sub.2, CHCl.sub.3 and CCl.sub.4, by chlorinating methyl chloride with chlorine in a first reaction zone A, chlorinating at least one of the higher chloromethanes CH.sub.2 Cl.sub.2 and CHCl.sub.3 with chlorine in a parallel second reaction zone B, combining the reaction products from the first and second reaction zones A and B, separating higher chloromethanes from the combined reaction prodcuts, and recycling at least one of...

An information processing apparatus which processes a large amount of data at high speed. The synchronizing signal has a cycle including a transfer period and a processing period. In the transfer period, data is transferred, e.g., from a data input unit to a first memory, and from the first memory to a second memory. In the processing period, the data input unit reads data for one frame of a digital video image, and a data output unit displays an image based on the image data. Processors respect...

A branched alkylsilane includes a branched hydrocarbon backbone which has a linear or branched alkylsilyl moiety extending asymmetrically from the backbone such that the backbone has a first portion and a second portion extending from the moiety. The second portion has two carbon atoms more than the first portion, and the alkylsilyl moiety includes at least one hydrolyzable group bound to silicon for reacting with a substrate. A method for preparing a branched alkylsilane useful for chromatograp...

X-ray detectors (24) of a CT scanner (10) generate data values which are preprocessed and assembled (26) into binary data lines. The binary data lines are convolved by a convolver (30) which convolves a plurality of data lines concurrently. A backprojector (32) includes a parametric cubic spline preinterpolator (40) which performs a high order interpolation on the convolved data lines and a linear interpolator (42) which performs a linear interpolation on the high order preinterpolated data line...

The highly chlorinated methanes, e.g., carbon tetrachloride, are improvedly dechlorinated by reacting same with hydrogen in the presence of oxygen or an oxygen-containing gas, e.g., air, and a catalytically effective amount of a metal of the copper or precious metal Groups of the Periodic Table, typically in the form of a fixed or fluidized bed thereof, and advantageously in the gaseous phase.

A method of making a higher olefin product from a C.sub.4.sup.+ fraction separated from the hydrocarbon product produced by an oxygenate to olefin reaction unit. The C.sub.4.sup.+ fraction primarily contains butenes which may be directed to a higher olefin reaction unit without removing isobutenes, butanes, and/or butadiene. The C.sub.4.sup.+ fraction is particularly well suited for the production of higher olefins because of its high olefin content, low branching number, and low contaminent lev...

A method and apparatus for highly efficient use of higher-order diffraction beam in holography. The thermoplastic hologram (10) is recorded at a recording angle (.theta..sub.R) between two coherent beams (12, 14) equal to a first-order diffraction angle (.theta..sub.1) corresponding to the angle (.theta..sub.2) of the desired higher-order beam (18) set to the angular peak (22) of diffraction efficiency (20) of the material of the hologram. On read-out, the desired higher-order beam is read. By u...

The invention provides a higher alkoxy-substituted organopolysiloxane having, in a molecule, at least one alkoxy group of 4 to 30 carbon atoms bonded to the silicon atom excepting those at the molecular chain ends and still having a high degree of polymerization of at least 15. Such an organopolysiloxane, not known in the prior art, can be prepared by the dehydrogenation condensation reaction between an organohydrogenpolysiloxane and a higher aliphatic alcohol in the presence of a catalyst syste...