Tokuyama Soda Kabushiki Kaisha

Yoshiaki Watanabe

Genji Taga

Yukio Mizutani

Teruo Oikawa

Yusuke Izumi

Takanori Teshima

Disclosed is a liquid-absorbing shaped body comprising a fibrous material and an inorganic powder in which the volume of fine pores having a pore radius less than 0.5.mu. is at least 2.5 cc/g. This shaped body is excellent in the liquid-absorbing capacity and liquid-retaining property to various kinds of liquids.

Liquid-absorbing shaped body

Disclosed is an alkali calcium silicate having two different X-ray diffraction patterns: (1) with diffraction peaks at spacings (d) of 11.8-12.2 A, 6 A and 3 A or (2) with diffraction peaks at spacings (d) of 13.0-13.4 A, 6.7 A and 3.1 A. This silicate is in the fibrous or micaceous form and is valuable as a drying agent or an ion exchange agent. This silicate is prepared by hydrothermal reaction of an aqueous suspension having a specific composition of the starting components.

Alkali calcium silicates and process for preparation thereof

Disclosed is an alkali calcium silicate having two different X-ray diffraction patterns (1) with diffraction peaks at spacings (d) of 11.8-12.2 A, 6 A and 3 A or (2) with diffraction peaks at spacings (d) of 13.0-13.4 A, 6.7 A and 3.1 A. This silicate is in the fibrous or micaceous form and is valuable as a drying agent or an ion exchange agent. This silicate is prepared by hydrothermal reaction of an aqueous suspension having a specific composition of the starting components.

A process for producing calcium silicate of the rational formula 2CaO.3SiO.sub.2.nSiO.sub.2.mH.sub.2 O wherein m is a number of more than 0, and n is a number of 0.1 to 10 from a silicate compound and a calcium compound, which comprises contacting a water-soluble silicate compound with a calcium compound in an aqueous medium, and heating them to a temperature of 150.degree. to 250.degree. C., the amount of the aqueous medium being 5 to 100 times the weight of the calcium silicate obtained, and a process for producing calcium silicate or a calcium silicate-gypsum composite, which comprises adding a water-soluble silicate or its aqueous solution gradually to an aqueous suspension of gypsum, and heating the mixture to a temperature of 150.degree. to 250.degree. C. The calcium silicate and the calcium silicate-gypsum composite, which have a structure composed of an assembly of petal-like flakes, are useful as an adsorbent carrier, a delusterant or a filtration aid.

Production of calcium silicate having high specific bulk volume and

A process of producing ketone condensation products which comprises condensing at a temperature of from 60.degree. to 300.degree.C. a ketone having 3-19 carbon atoms in the presence of, as a catalyst, at least one metal phosphate selected from titanium phosphate, zirconium phosphate, hafnium phosphate, and tin phosphate; dimeric condensation or trimeric condensation can be achieved depending upon the reaction conditions.

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Yoshiaki Watanabe