Shin-etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.

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Akira Hayashida

Toshinobu Ishihara

Minoru Takamizawa

Hiromi Ohsaki

Katsuhiro Uehara

Nobuaki Urasato

A process of producing a methylphenyltrisiloxane having the following general formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 may be the same or different and are each a methyl or phenyl group, the process comprising the step of reacting:

Production of methylphenyltrisiloxane

A powdery mixture of a fine silicon carbide powder admixed with boron or a boron compound, e.g. boron carbide, titanium boride and boron oxide, as a sintering aid is compression-molded into a green body which is subjected to a sintering treatment into a sintered body. Different from conventional methods in which the sintering treatment is performed always in an atmosphere of an inert gas, e.g. argon, the sintering treatment in the inventive method is performed in an atmosphere of a rare gas containing 0.005-5% by volume of nitrogen. The sintered body of silicon carbide obtained by this method has an outstandingly high electric volume resistivity of 10.sup.10 to 10.sup.13 ohm.cm and a coefficient of thermal conductivity of 100-220 W/m.K.

Method for the preparation of a sintered body of silicon carbide

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