When flocculating an aqueous suspension of suspended solids using a high molecular weight synthetic polymeric flocculant the shear stability of the flocs is increased if the polymeric material includes polymeric particles of below 10 .mu.m dry size. The flocculated solids can therefore be subjected to shear without increasing the amount of discrete suspended solids in the aqueous medium and generally they are suspended to shear by shearing the aqueous medium containing them, either before dewate...

A process for the deposition of a film of an electrophoretic resin upon the surface of a substrate which comprises the steps of (i) electrophoretically depositing from a bath comprising water, a water miscible organic solvent and the resin, a film of the uncured resin upon the surface of the substrate; (ii) immersing said film in a solution of a resin additive in a solvent medium comprising water and a water miscible organic solvent, the amount of said resin additive dissolved in said solvent me...

Exposed photographic silver halide emulsions containing development inhibitor releasing coupler are processed in the presence of primary aromatic color developing agent and a competing coupler which produces substantially no permanent dye in the emulsion.

A process for the preparation of gem-bis(hydroxyaryl)alkanes which comprises the reaction of a ketone, a hydroxyarene and an alkylhalosilane.

A process in which a culture of a methane-oxidizing bacterium or an extract thereof containing a methane oxidizing system is used as oxidizing agent for the oxidation of a higher short-chain alkane, an alkene or a cyclic organic compound.

A cross linked high molecular weight polymer formed from a water soluble monomer or blend of monomers and which has IV and/or solubility and/or rheology properties indicating that it would be unsuitable for use as a flocculant can be used as a flocculant after shearing the polymeric material. The shearing may be applied to the polymeric material before addition to the suspension that is to be flocculated or can be applied to the suspensionthat is being flocculated. The shearing increases the int...

Continuous processes for producing toner compositions are provided utilizing spinning disc reactors, rotating tubular reactors, or combinations thereof.

A process for preparing a polymer comprising selecting temperatures and amounts of a polymerization medium, a surfactant, a monomer or polymer seed, and any desired additives to achieve an initial temperature in a polymerization reactor; adding the polymerization medium and surfactant as contents to the polymerization reactor whereby the surfactant is added within 1.5 times a time period required for polymerization medium addition; and introducing the monomer or polymer seed and the any desired ...

A toner process comprising mixing a colorant dispersion with a latex, a wax dispersion, and a coagulant, and wherein the latex contains a polymer with a static yield stress of from about 0.05 to about 3 dyne/cm.sup.2, a viscosity for the polymer latex of from about 5 to about 35 centipoises (cps), and wherein said toner product possesses a volume average particle size distribution index GSDv of equal to or less than about 1.27, a number average particle size distribution index GSDn of equal to o...

A method for bisformylation an arylamine compound by reacting an arylamine compound with an alkyleneamine in a reaction mixture while refluxing an acid in the reaction mixture.