Bayer Aktiengesellschaft

Heinz Gunter Klein

Hans Niederprum

Johann Nikolaus Meussdoerffer

Johann-Nikolaus Meussdoerffer

In the etching of glass wherein glass is contacted with an aqueous etching bath containing hydrofluoric acid, and the glass is thereafter removed from the bath and rinsed, the improvement which comprises dissolving in the etching bath an acid-resistant wetting agent. Preferably the wetting agent contains fluorine, e.g. a perfluoralkane sulfonic acid quaternary ammonium salt, a perfluoralkane carboxylic acid salt, an alkoxylation product of a perfluoralkane sulfonamide, or the like.

Etching glass with HF and fluorine-containing surfactant

In the electrodeposition of a chrome layer wherein the chrome is deposited from an electrolyte solution containing a hexavalent chromium compound in the presence of a fluorine-based surfactant, the improvement which comprises employing as the fluorine-based surfactant a quaternary ammonium perfluoralkane sulfonate of the formula

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Cologne, Germany

Heinz Gunter Klein